U.S. National Debt

[kevenj]

I just found this website that shows our total national debt:

Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)


Looks like a huge number, right? But can you really conceive of how much money 9.4 Trillion dollars is though?
Well I did some math;

1 Billion dollars = 1000 million.

1 Trillion dollars = 1000 billion (or 1000x1000 million or 1,000,000 million dollars). That means that if you

spent 1 million dollars every single day, it would take you 1 million days (or about 2,740 YEARS) to

spend 1 trillion dollars.


Since the U.S. national debt is 9.4 trillion dollars, multiply that 2,740 years by 9.4, and you realize that

to equal our national debt, at a spending rate of ONE MILLION DOLLARS EVERY DAY, it would take you

25,753.5 years. ( YES - - ALMOST TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND YEARS!!!! )

[robaustin]

Hell, that's only about $30,000 per citizen. If every American man woman and child were to chip in 30 G's, you could be debt free. But first, someone has to pay for the subprime fiasco. And Canada is the pimple on America's back, so where you go, we go.

[djhelios]

if you could spend that much a day...ummmm that that would be alot of 300c's you could own.... just/jk

[253motoring]

Were are screwed all the way around Bush has F'ed us all up I bet 12 months from now gas will be 5$ per gallon

I cant believe people are still having kids and bringing them into this crap! The worst part is unless you make 100K per year at the least you cant live life to the fullest!

Geogre Bush I fill is to blame for most of this! I own a car transport company and my gas bill per month has went from 1500-2000 to 4000-5000 in 1 year that is freakin crazy!

[DaveW68]

^^ ^^

[kevenj]

Originally Posted by 253motoring

Were are screwed all the way around Bush has F'ed us all up I bet 12 months from now gas will be 5$ per gallon.........

Geogre Bush I fill is to blame for most of this!........

I've gone from being a Bush supporter to being one of his biggest critics due to his stupid policies (too numerous to list here), however the mess we find ourselves in now is the result of nearly 100 years of stupid policies going back to Woodrow Wilson and the creation of the Federal Reserve. Bush has definitely accelerated our demise, but he's not smart enough to have done it all on his own!