Thursday, June 28, 2012

Putting Our Nations Debt Into Real Numbers


Do you know what a trillion looks like?  Neither do I.  But here is a handy little graphic that gives you a way of putting it in prospective.
If each second is equal to 1 dollar, then in one trillion dollars there are 31,710 years, years, not minutes, or seconds but years.  If you multiply that times the 15 trillion in debt, you get 475,650 years.
That is more years than recorded history.
Scary when you look at it this way.

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