[warchild9]

Mr. tank, you need to add ...000 to that number.

$9,000,000,000,000, soon to be $10,000,000,000,000.

Thank you, math degree.

[delacoert]

Thank you, math degree.

Heh.

If a math degree is required, then woe is me.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

$9,000,000,000,000

The federal debt is actually a little under $5 trillion.
Almost half and growing of the current $8.3T is the Social Security "trust fund", which is illegitimate government debt to itself.
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm
I wish I could throttle the MSM over the $9T lie. But everybody believes it.
It is like when I was trying to convince people that the 3rd Millennium began with 2001, not 2000.
I could only do it AFTER the 2000 celebration.
You can bet the MSM will "discover" the lower figure as soon as a Democrat is elected President.