Posted on 07/27/2013 12:45:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. national debt would reach 1.1 million miles into space if stacked in one dollar bills.
According to the latest available data from the U.S. Treasury, the total public debt outstanding is $16,738,105,803,858.21. A dollar bill is .0043 inches in thickness. … Thus, the national debt would stretch 1,135,951 miles into the air. …
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Rough math here, but that’s about 50 times around the equator of earth.
whole lotta cold, hard cash.
I wouldn’t mind having about 5 feet of that.
Yes, at the value it was at before the Federal Reserve was founded.
Obviously, Obama can cut the National Debt in half by printing the Dollar on half-thick paper.
Just wait.
. . . at twice the cost. (Which will be covered up for at least a year or so by the liberal media.)
I got 1357mi 568.67yd for Detroit’s debt in stacked bills.
“...$16,738,105,803,858...”
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By my math, you could buy one chevy volt every minute for 796 years without stopping to eat or sleep.
Forget about us all the generations that follow are now doomed to slavery to the government.
I don’t think it would make it. They are not taking into account the compression of the bills under all that weight...)
Gravitational pull should get less the closer you get to orbit. Of course, there’s high-altitude wind speed to contend with . . .
That’s only the tip of the debt and entitlement iceberg...
Naw. The rotten structure will collapse under its own weight at some not too distant date, a default is as inevitable as the Dawn...
Thats a boatload of money backed BY NOTHING!.. nothing at all..
except the good wishes of the American people mostly high on marijuana or something else..
Little wonder many people voted multiple times in the Nov 6th 2012 elections.. with illegal insurgents being called citizens.. WHO ALSO VOTED..
AND NOBODY REALLY CARES..
.... Holy Guacamole .... we better borrow more money to pay off the National Debt before it gets any bigger!!!!
You’ve got it, and then some. Your share of the national debt is about $50K, or 18 ft of stacked dollar bills.
I don’t know why everybody is so worked up over this. There isn’t enough paper in the world to print that many dollar bills, so...obviously there’s no problem.
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