LYNN BERGMAN: OUR DEBT
United States National Debt
$36,646,140,000,000
Check out the US Debt Clock:
$100 bills stacked to the same height as the earth’s circumference.
To visualize that amount of money, consider that 366,461,400,000 $100 bills (each 0.0043 inches thick) would be 24,870 miles in height, just under the earth’s circumference of 24,901 miles.
Annual Interest Paid on US Debt
Over $1 Trillion
Largest Foreign Holders of United States Debt
Japan ($1.1 T) and China ($0.76 B)
Annual United States Government Spending
Over $7 Trillion
Annual United States Government Revenue
Over $5 Trillion
Why does the United States annually Spend $2 Trillion more than it takes in?
So, the members of the US House of Representatives
And the “out-patients” in the US Senate Nursing Home
Can get re-elected!
How ignorant are we?
There Is No Free Lunch!
May we possibly deserve the economic future we face?
Demand a Balanced Budget Amendment!
No Government Can Tax Its Way to Prosperity!
Love = Work + Courage
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