[highlander_UW]

I don't know about his conclusion, I just thought the different ways to try to grasp just how much debt the federal government has amassed was interesting.

The sad thing is, this doesn't even take into account the unfunded liablities.

[Texas Fossil]

One thing I feel pretty confident in predicting: America's Second Revolution is coming, and the young will bring it.

And some old boomers may participate too. First step is a total rout for the Dems & RINOs in November

[Wolverine]

100 rows x $10,000,000,000 = $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

[CodeToad]

$1 Billion stack of money for reference. $100 bills in that stack.

$1 Trillion. Notice little guy for reference:

Current national debt of $12.5 trillion:

[OneWingedShark]

From the Article:
Are you starting to get an idea of how huge the debt is? There's another way to look at it: Divide the population of the United States, which is about 300 million, into a trillion and you get $3,333 per person. Since the debt is $12.5 trillion, that means every man, woman, and child in the United States owes ($3,333 x 12.5) $41,666. But of course we older folks will be long gone by the time we have to pay any of that debt off, so it really means that the younger generation, say Americans under age 30, which total about 129 million people, will have to pay back ($12.5 trillion ÷ 129 million) about $97,000 each to get the country out of debt.
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One thing I feel pretty confident in predicting: America's Second Revolution is coming, and the young will bring it.

no kidding, when you're forced to pay nearly $97,000 for something you aren't going to be able to use you're liable to act strongly against it.

[roses of sharon]

I don't see a revolution coming at all....otherwise we would see it in the polls by now. Obama and the Dems are hanging in there, with a few exceptions.

Most Americans could care less, and with the half that do care, half of those are moochers, looters, and government workers.

And with each passing day more Americans will be subsidized by government for their essentials, and more and more Americans will be government employed.

As a matter of fact, I am not sure they can be called “Americans” anymore.

[Republic]

We need to stop ANY LEGISLATION that includes more or new taxes.

We are being TAXED into family financial defeat and it HAS TO STOP.

It is NOT FAIR and it is WRONG HEADED!

Are we now not allowed to own ANYTHING that is not taxed to death?

For instance....did the AL GORE tax that he put on all telephones in order to buy every school computers, did that TAX ever get taken OFF OUR PHONE BILLS? Hell no.

Go and LOOK at your PHONE BILLS. Do you pay a cell phone tax, too? Here in Indiana we pay an almost SIX DOLLAR STATE TAX every month and a SIX DOLLAR FED TAX every month on a THIRTY DOLLAR PHONE BILL, land line, that we hardly ever use! (Had the long distance part taken off as the cell long distance, of course, is cheaper.)

WHY?

And why gasoline tax?

And PROPERTY TAXES that are never ending and feel like RENT MONEY when the mortgage is paid off...WHY do we have so MANY TAXES?

On food, on CLOTHES, on entertainment, on TV, on and on and on and on and on and on And NOW...they want to TAX internet usage?

Is there no relief?

If those ARSEHOLES in DC want more TAX money, tell them to STOP looking for ways to make it impossible for some of us to even afford a movie anymore and and tell them to start CUTTING OUT ALL OF THE HORRIFIC PROGRAMS THEY HAVE ENACTED TO ROB US OF OUR MONEY AND PUT US INTO DEBT.

THEY ARE THE ONES WHO MISUSED OUR MONEY. NOT US THEM!

SPENDING MORE THEN WE HAD WHEN WE TRUSTED THEM AND ELECTED THEM TO CONTROL OUR MONEY FOR DEFENSE AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND GOVERNMENTAL SALARIES (like theirs, that they happily raise at will) and natural DISASTERS.

THEY ARE THE ONES WHO PUT US INTO DEBT. Not us. THEM-----> living breathing men and women, ALL FOUR HUNDRED and THIRTY-FIVE in the House of Representatives and ALL ONE HUNDRED in the SENATE.

THEY PUT US INTO DEBT, in some cases, just ONE PARTY DID IT, like the DEMOCRATS voting in the COSTLY, HORRIFIC, FREEDOM KILLING of CHOICE HEALTH/DEATH BILL.

Damn it. NO MORE SPENDING. NOT ON DIME!!!!*( Or here is an idea-force every congressman to take a HUGE CUT in salary and benefits (ie make them all go on the health care death debacle they voted to lay on all of us...NO SPECIAL WAIVERS-lol) until they BALANCE THE BUDGET...which is their job.

Do not let them LEAVE DC until EVERY PROGRAM IS CUT that will allow the budget to balance out within a few years. MAKE THEM DO THE HARD WORK THEY ARE PAID TO DO SINCE THEY PUT US INTO THIS HORRIFIC ECONOMIC NIGHTMARE.