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A visual representation of the staggering amount of our national debt
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:40 pm
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:40 pm
A trillion dollars would be a stack of $1,000 bills stretching some 67 miles in length.
A mere 4 inches of that stack is equivalent to a million dollars.
Considering we are currently at roughly 32 trillion dollars in debt, that means that a stack of $1000 bills equaling the national debt would stretch roughly some 2144 miles in length.
To put that into perspective, that is the distance from Provo Utah to Washington DC, a 32 hour drive, and at any point in time you stopped for gas and pocketed a 4.3” chunk out of it, you’d be a millionaire.
That means that the next American child born as you’re reading this has a $108,342.95 millstone of debt around its neck from the moment it takes its first breath.
That’s why living it up and kicking the can down to your children, and grandchildren to pay off is an immoral injustice.
A mere 4 inches of that stack is equivalent to a million dollars.
Considering we are currently at roughly 32 trillion dollars in debt, that means that a stack of $1000 bills equaling the national debt would stretch roughly some 2144 miles in length.
To put that into perspective, that is the distance from Provo Utah to Washington DC, a 32 hour drive, and at any point in time you stopped for gas and pocketed a 4.3” chunk out of it, you’d be a millionaire.
That means that the next American child born as you’re reading this has a $108,342.95 millstone of debt around its neck from the moment it takes its first breath.
That’s why living it up and kicking the can down to your children, and grandchildren to pay off is an immoral injustice.
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:41 pm to Mike da Tigah
I know for a fact my wife would be happy with 4 inches.
This post was edited on 2/23/23 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:41 pm to Mike da Tigah
I was hoping there would be pics…
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:42 pm to Mike da Tigah
Where's the picture so I can visualize
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:42 pm to AndyCBR
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I was hoping there would be pics…
That's usually the expectation for a visual representation.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:42 pm to Mike da Tigah
we will never pay that off
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:43 pm to UKWildcats
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Where's the picture so I can visualize
You gotta use your head movies
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:43 pm to Mike da Tigah
We could ask Zimbabwe, lots of trillionaires there
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:45 pm to Mike da Tigah
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A trillion dollars would be a stack of $1,000 bills stretching some 67 miles in length.
Why would you use an imaginary bill denomination that shortens the height of the stack?
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:46 pm to diat150
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we will never pay that off
We don't have to. The entire world is a house of cards. We owe everyone, but we have the most guns. We also buy the most shite. We have debt, but other countries are dependent on us to buy their shite and keep their countries afloat. Call in that unfathomable debt. What happens?
At a certain point, it doesn't matter. A trillion? A hundred trillion? What comes after a trillion? We may find out, but it won't matter. We will just print more money and keep rolling. Numbers like that, at this point, mean nothing.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:46 pm to Mike da Tigah
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A mere 4 inches of that stack is equivalent to a million dollars.
shite baws, I’m a millionaire!!!!
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:48 pm to LegendInMyMind
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At a certain point, it doesn't matter. A trillion? A hundred trillion? What comes after a trillion? We may find out, but it won't matter. We will just print more money and keep rolling. Numbers like that, at this point, mean nothing.
Until the yen supplants the dollar and our treasury can no longer pay its debts.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:49 pm to LegendInMyMind
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We don't have to
This.
We will only run in to problems when countries no longer want to hold their assets or trade in dollars. Only something like a global conflict in which we try to exclude major players from the board could move the needle enough for all the small baws to think that doing business with DC might work against them. That'll never happen.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:49 pm to Mike da Tigah
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108,342.95 millstone of debt around its neck from the moment it takes its first breath.
A mildly successful person will pay that back many times in taxes unfortunately
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:55 pm to Mike da Tigah
You do know the majority of our national "debt" is money borrowed from the American taxpayers, right?
This post was edited on 2/23/23 at 9:56 pm
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:58 pm to SG_Geaux
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I know for a fact my wife would be happy with 4 inches.
She sure is
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:58 pm to Mike da Tigah
What would the dollar amounts and distances be if we used the metric system?
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:59 pm to Mike da Tigah
That is not a visual BAW
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:00 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
Something else to consider is that it’s being forecasted that the interest payments alone on our national debt will soon eclipse the amount of our federal defense budget over the next ten years or so, and that is why it is a death spiral.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:04 pm to HempHead
A lot can happen between now and never
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