Fiscal Cliff put into perspective

If it were only as simple as the photo.
It’s not, but go on believing it is.
Downvote away.

“Hey guys, this will be hard so let’s not do it”

Try this one for perspective....

The nearest star outside of Earth's planetary system is Alpha Centauri, it's 25 trillion miles from earth, that's around 4 light years from earth.....light travels at approximately 186,000/sec

The US debt is over $33 trillion. I wonder how long it would take to count to 33 trillion? According to Google using a normal pace it takes approximately 32,000 years to count from 1 to 1 trillion.......32,000 x 33.....you do the math but it's over 1,000,000 years to count to 33 trillion.

We measure the distance between stars using light years rather than trillions of miles, seems we need to establish a new measurement for US debt because $33 trillion is inconceivable to most Americans.

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Fiscal Cliff put into perspective

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Now add in:

the power to print money
the power to tax
tens of trillions in assets - for starters, the US gov owns something like 650 million acres of land


I understand the point of the figures you posted, but the fact is, the US gov is NOT a household. It's the largest and most powerful sovereign entity in the history of the world - replete with the most powerful military in of all time.

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tens of trillions in assets - for starters, the US gov owns something like 650 million acres of land

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None of that ^^^ is easily fungible to settle up the US debt. The only way US debt can be controlled and reduced is to increase GDP to over 4% for several years and reduce government spending by 10-20% during that same period of economic growth.