Posted on 09/17/2017 4:51:01 PM PDT by fugazi
With our national debt passing the $20 trillion threshold this week, let’s look at some figures that will help us wrap our mind around this unfathomable amount of money.
To make 20 trillion one dollar bills, it would require commandeering every cotton field in the United States for 19 years (the dollar is actually 75 percent cotton) and 30 years for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to stamp out the notes. The price tag for printing this vast quantity of bills would cost taxpayers another $2 trillion.
Our mountain of 20 trillion George Washingtons would weigh in at a whopping 22 million tons, which just might actually be enough – with a hat tip to Congressman Hank Johnson – to tip over the island of Guam. Chicago’s 108-story Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, weighs about 222,500 tons, so it would take 99 such skyscrapers to equal the weight of our national debt. Guam would have an incredible skyline, which we could easily afford to build when you consider that, adjusting for inflation, $20 trillion would buy 21,000 Willis Towers.
To ship all that money across the Pacific, it would require 758,000 semi trucks and 75 trips with the world’s largest cargo ship. But where would we store it? The world’s largest building – by volume – is the 97-acre Boeing Factory in Everett, Wash., where the aircraft manufacturer assembles airliners like the 747 “Jumbo Jet.” If you were to neatly stack one-dollar bills – without pallets – in every available square inch of the monstrous facility, Boeing would still have to build a second factory to store the rest.
A stack of 20 trillion one dollar bills, if you could somehow keep Congress from snatching it, would reach an incredible 1,357,300 miles into
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If we didn’t have a (unconstitutional) Federal Reserve and still had a link to precious metals, it would be absolutely impossible for Fed.gov to have created so much debt
BTTT
But it IS big enough to pay off my mortgage, finance my retirement, and have a few shekels left over.
Now multiply the above by 20 and you have the actual debt.
Bingo!!!!
I know women who could make it disappear really quickly.
Only if you don't have to pay taxes on it. LOL, and like all organized crime syndicates the Don's want their cut.
If the average household spent like the government,it would be living under a bridge hooked on heroin.
The best way to visualize $20T is to think of a stack of trillion dollar bills sitting on a desk. The stack would be twenty bills high. Breathtaking, isn’t it?
LOCK THEM UP...current and past gang members (Gang of 535 aka CONgre$$)...
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt...
Rules for Radicals? No, Rules for changing a republic...
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
Just remember... Half of that enormous 20 freaking trillion was added in the last eight years during the zero administration.
So freaking incredible.
LOL, that’s what scares me, I don’t want to live in Zimbabwe, but congress is on the road to bring Zimbabwe to us.
Once you actually see what this debt looks like, you realize it will never be paid back.
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html
My concern about this huge debt is just who has this amount of cash to keep lending to the US government? Next, what are the interest payments on this debt and is it actually being paid or simply added back to the existing debt? Also, if it is considered impossible to pay off this debt, why do the sources of this lending keep lending more cash to this insolvent nation, considering the unfunded liabilites that exist as well. A curious deplorable wants to know...
Which if my math is correct works out at around $62,000 for every man, woman, and child in the USA. And probably $300,000+ for every person in legal full-time employment paying their due taxes.
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