Doing the math on Obama's debt
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, WorldNetDaily
How much is a trillion dollars?
Mathematically it would be expressed with this simple equation: A trillion dollars = $1,000,000,000,000.
It takes 12 zeroes to the left of the decimal point to make a trillion. Or, in other words, a trillion is a million million dollars.
The website 100777.com expressed it this way:
"The U.S. government spends more than the entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Australia, China and Spain combined. If you laid one-dollar bills end to end, you could make a chain that stretches from earth to the moon and back again 200 times before you ran out of dollar bills! One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills."
We find it hard to wrap our minds around such a large number.
Barack Obama doesn't share this affliction. He is pushing the U.S. Senate to raise the U.S. debt ceiling beyond $12.1 trillion.
This year's deficit alone is set to surpass $1.8 trillion.
Just four months ago, on May 14, 2009, Barack Obama warned, "We can't keep on just borrowing from China, we have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children's future with more and more debt." He went so far as to say the budget deficit is "unsustainable," that day in Rio Rancho, N.M.
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