So I want to take a minute and ask, do you know how much money that the national debt really is?? It is so mind boggling, it’s hard to wrap a thought around.
Currently it would cost each household in the United States 33 thousand dollars just to pay off the debt that we are in…
There was this web page that I stumbled upon showing just how much money it really is… This is going to be really hard to try to explain without the pictures, however you still might be able to get the point.
I’m sure all of us have seen a 100-dollar bill, now imagine one hundred 100-dollar bills in a stack. That is just a ½ of an inch thick.
And one hundred of those can easily fit into a grocery bag and be carried around. Now, that just equals 10,000 dollars. Needing 999,000 thousand dollars which makes a million. Which would fill one pallet up to five feet. Then a billion would be a 5x5 pallets filled with one million dollars on it… then a trillion would be 100x100 double stacked.
Another way to look at this a little less visual would be:
One trillion can pay for the military for every Nato country combined. One trillion dollars can pay for all the goods and services produced in Australia for one year. It can pay for every military intervention and war since 9/11, it is the marked value of the Toronto stock exchange. One trillion dollars can pay for the rent for every renter for three years, or the mortgages for every homeowner for 14 months. One trillion can purchase all the homes that foreclosed in 2007-2008. One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 11 weeks vacation for every American worker. One trillion dollars could pay 1/10 of the spending for current bailout.
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