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What Does the US Debt Look Like?
$100
$10,000
$1,000,000
$100,000,000
Plenty to go around for everyone. Fits nicely on an ISO / Military standard sized pallet
$1,000,000,000
$1,000,000,000,000
When the U.S government speaks about a 1.7 trillion deficit – this is the volumes of cash the U.S. Government borrowed in 2010 to run itself. Remember that it is double stacked pallets of $100 million dollars each, full of $100 dollar bills. You are going to need a lot of trucks to freight this around. If you spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, you would have not spent $1 trillion by now…but ~$700 billion- same amount the banks got during bailout
$15,170,600,000,000 is the Total Debt of the US Government
United States now owes more money than its GDP. It’s debt to GDP ratio is 100%. The United States national debt will soon to pass 20% of the entire world’s combined GDP.
