The Debt: Part 2
I've talked about how much debt the United States is in before, but I feel that this number is merits a revisiting.
For a few reasons.
First, it's an important number in politics.
Second, it's a very hard to understand number.
And third, it's getting bigger. In fact, since my last post about it 12 days ago, the debt has grown by 19 billion dollars, bringing the grand total to 14,408,119,076,113 dollars.
So how much money is that?
Let's say you have the amount of money that the United States owes.
And you have it in 100 thousand dollar bills.
Assuming these bills weigh the standard 1 gram that every American bill weighs, you'd have 317 thousand pounds of 100 thousand dollar bills.
A standard dump truck can handle 32 metric tons.
That means it would take 5 dump trucks to move the entire debt. In 100000 dollar bills.
55 Comments:
It raised that much...
I'd love to have one of those trucks at my garage.
that's quite a lot of debt :o
19 billion in twelve days? wow!
that is a lot of debt...:O
I wish I could grow in worth by 19 billion dollars in 12 days.
dude, thats so much o.0
It's just so incomprehensible. I can't even wrap my head around that much money.
Thanks for putting this in a way we can understand. I heard it would take 250 years to pay off if each and ever man woman and child paid more than $300,000 each a year. That's assuming the same spending we have now.
dang
:O awesomee
omg that is sick! thanks for pointing that out for us
glad i dont live in america lol
Away from numbers important thing is that main holder of this debt is PRC :P
That's a damn lot of debt.
That's CRAZY
damn ! they really shouldn'y have let it lead to such a high figure :P
I was thinking about that
Wooow amazing number of debt...
thats just too much money
every country has a debt, I wonder where the money is
interesting statistics!
19 billion dollars ???! in 12 days.
Its so much money that its beyond fixing. I'm not even sure it matters at this point
I just want only one truck with it...
wow
14 trillions are only the tip of the iceberg!
The whole world is fucked up, we need a RESET and a new monetary system, gold standard?!
That's insane! How is that even possible?
Holy...That is crazy, Donald Trump for president. Get us out of this DEBT!
thats so much
mooooney~
That, is a hell of a lot of money!
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? D:
oh boy...that's a lot of debt
That is so much debt, seriously
I can't even wrap my head around that number.
its ok, debt is the american way
great post
those are some very big numbers. Depressing, but still huge
Great way to put it into perspective.
Christ almighty that is alot...
Thats amazing figures for sure lol.
Great post :O
America's debt? I believe that we the people should be looking to the government to pay that without my social security being taken away.
Thanks for letting me know that I am totally screwed. lol.
FUUUU the U.S is screwed but it they are screwed i dont even want to Imagine what the hell happens to their playground. Mexico....
what did we buy in the last two weeks? :(
Sooo it would seem we're in a fair bit of trouble..
Thats alot of debt. Its sad that the value of the dollar keeps going down
We work in big numbers at the observatory. A trillion is very hard to conceptualize and to get across. You did a great job.
Assuming The average American makes 30K a year for 50 years, and has 20% of that taxed . how many people would it take to pay that back?
So who they owe the money to?
America is in a really bad state!
Every country has a debt.
Bloodt insane. Hard to think so much money even exists.
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