Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Debt of the US.

The current debt of the US is about $10,193,681,000,788.58 (Ten Trillion, One Hundred Ninety-Three Billion, Six Hundred Eighty-One Million, Seven Hundred Eighty-Eight dollars and Fifty-Eight cents)

If you were to take the debt of the US in $1 bills and stack them on top of each other, you would have a pile 691,806 miles high. To give you an idea of how far that is, the pile of $1 bills would stretch 3 times farther then the moon. The moon is only about 230,000 miles from earth.

In movies you see millions of dollars in a briefcase stacked in bundles. That briefcase is only 16" wide, 12" deep and 5" thick. To fit the National Debt in $1 bills into a briefcase...you would need a briefcase a mile wide, a mile long and 14" high.

Crazy. I did all the calculations myself, so correct me if im wrong.

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