The national debt for America right now is 13 trillion dollars. To put this into prospective, if you took 13 trillion one dollar bills and stacked them one on top of another, you would have a stack of money big enough to pay off the national debt. amirite?

+304 The national debt for America right now is 13 trillion dollars. To put this into prospective, if you took 13 trillion one dollar bills and stacked them one on top of another, you would have a stack of money big enough to pay off the national debt. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

thanks captain obvious

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're welcome, Sergeant Sarcasm ;D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If each person in the world gave the government $1800, it still would not be enough to pay off the debt.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Apple has more money than the US govt. If they switched, everyone would probably be thin & white.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Technically you do too, and everybody has more money than the US gov't, because nobody else is $13 trillion in debt.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It'd be approximately 13.000 km high, which is roughly a 3412073-floor skycraper. It'd be 12.400 metres above the atmosphere.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No it wouldn't. Have you ever tried to build a stack of anything? It always falls over. Plus they don't make ladders that tall...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Psht. In that case the post is just as wrong, considering they said ¨a stack¨ as well.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, yes it is...but I like your unrealistic facts anyways. :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you had a million one-dollar bills you would need a box the size of a small coffin to carry them. If you spent a dollar every second it would take you 32 years to spend a billion dollars. If you spent it at the same rate it would take 31,000 years to spend a trillion dollars. Andrew Jackson called the dept "America's curse" and nearly managed to eliminate it. In Reagan's years the debt nearly doubled and the US went from being the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation. Gotta love trivia books.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Where are all the debt collectors at for the USA debt? I want to see the government getting their stuff repossessed because they can't pay it back. If an individual is even a little into debt, the people they owe money to go batshit. Waiting on China to visit and be like "Where's my money at bitch?"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can just imagine China going "Bitch where's my money? Im taking the Statue of Liberty and New York as payment."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Shit I hope they don't take Disney world...

by Anonymous 12 years ago