January 25, 2010 - 5:02 pm
Today, the U.S. Federal Government’s debt is $12,245,872,000,000. In news speak, that’s $12.2 trillion. That number tends to fall way outside the normal person’s ability to grasp so, as a service to my readers, I offer the following imagery.
If you put $1 per second into a pile you’ll have…
$60 in one minute.
$1 million in about 12 days.
$1 billion in about 33 years.
$1 trillion in about 32,000 years.
That’s just one of many ways to try and visualize the enormity of a trillion (a million million). Here’s another, really great one. Clicky clicky.
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