America's Debt

[Callyman]

America MUST have a good bank manager.
They are currently $14.3 Trillion in debt....and have agreed to increase this limit by a further $2.5 Trillion.
If you have no idea how big ONE trillion is it's 1 million million or 1,000 Billion, that's 1 followed by 12 zeros(1,000,000,000,000).

If you have no concept of how big that is then think about this........If you where to start counting 1, 2, 3, etc at the rate of +1 every second (presuming the bigger numbers could be spoken in one second) how long would it take you to reach one Trillion, 3months? 6 months? 1 YEAR? 5 years? 10 Years?
It's actually 31,880 years ......starting to realise how much debt they are in now?



Finally, If you have no idea what ONE Trillion looks like (let alone 14+) look here http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

[Fraz]

and this is the richest country in the world (or so they say) so who do you borrow from...China no doubt

[Callyman]

I'd guess so Fraz, I think they have already had more than 1 Triilion from them already.
USA owe us almost 400 Billion.
They should put those redundant Shuttles on ebay.

[bodgetastic]

That equates to approximately £50k per person, thats not gonna get recovered for a while then

[v6 steve]

14.3 trillion thats F*** all you should see ma visa card bill,

[stevo turbo]

after building the drain is that steve?

[Robs-se]

If America, Europe and god knows who else are all in debt, what i would like to know is, who has all the money, every country in the world cant all be in debt surely

[Callyman]

China mainly.

[rich30mex]

my ex
well she took all my money