Another illustration I faintly recall:
1. Get a bunch of bundles of $100 bills ($10,000 each).
2. Stack them neatly on a standard shipping pallet, forming an approximate cube.
3. Repeat until you've got enough shipping pallets holding cubes of $100 bills to cover a football field.
4. Repeat until you've got a second "course" of pallets of $100 bills covering a football field.
Now you've got a trillion dollars.
Add another half-course on top of the two you've already got, and you've got how much the Federal Government spent last year ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT IT COLLECTED IN TAXES!
I haven’t yet read the article, but the fact is, that we do not really owe this “money” nor is it possible to owe that much money except on paper. 15 Trillion dollars, would take $2,000+ for every man woman and child on the planet. These amounts only work on paper. There isn’t enough man power in all the world to pay off the all of the “debts” people owe. They’re fiction, and eventually people are going to say “NO!”
The fact is, with fiat currency, you can say, this hamburger costs 100 kaboomzillion dollars, and it doesn’t matter, because it means nothing. The bigger and bigger numbers simply mean how long people are willing to play the debt slave game. “You owe me $50,000” (approximately for our national debt/U.S. Citizen) “Now, you are my slave for 5 years to come (with a year added on every year in interest.”
That’s what the game is about, saying we all owe a big debt to everyone and that we are thus slaves to it forever. I say default on the debt, and start over economically with sound money. We’ve defaulted several times in U.S. History, it’s time to do it again. These are impossible numbers never meant to be repaid, but meant to condition us to slavery. You can take that to the bank.
P.S. I addressed this post to you, but it’s really for whoever.
Look at dollars as seconds and this is what you get:
* One million seconds = 12 years.
* One billion seconds = 32 years.
* One trillion seconds = 32,000 years.