Staggering Graphic of U.S. Debt

You know how money doesn't feel real unless you are holding it?

One Million Dollars
$1,000,000




One Hundred Million Dollars
$100,000,000



Let's keep going.

http://doubletakecreations.blogspot.com ... -debt.html

Why did you have to post the link? I was having a pretty good day until I clicked it. Sometimes we have to see a picture to know when we are truly fucked.

http://papundits.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dontlooknow_2011-01-31-brief-cartoon.jpg?w=594

Besides, it's all W and his daddy's fault...

Listen, I don't know how accurate this is. I just found it interesting.

Don't worry, we will just print our way out of trouble. Bernanke has a plan.

Meh, if you use $1 Trillion Dollar Bills instead or $100 Dollar bills, it's less than 15 bills. They'd fit in your wallet.

Raees wrote: Meh, if you use $1 Trillion Dollar Bills instead or $100 Dollar bills, it's less than 15 bills. They'd fit in your wallet.

rofllol Can I get change for this large bill?

How many hundreds would that be? And do you rent trucks? Big trucks?

FredHayek wrote: Don't worry, we will just print our way out of trouble. Bernanke has a plan.

One of my family members works in an investment firm specializing in gold. She tells me all the time "It's amazing how gold has risen in value, it's worth so much right now!"

I keep telling her "You're actually wrong on that... gold is worth the same, it just takes so many more dollars to buy it."

You can print, and print, and print, but gold will always tell the truth. the fiscal disaster train is on the way, sooner or later, and we're standing right on the tracks.

:pop

CinnamonGirl wrote: Listen, I don't know how accurate this is. I just found it interesting.

Listen- you don't know how accurate this is? It's accurate I can assure you.

And if we think this only affects our kids and grandkids- you'd be wrong. We are paying interest on that debt now, and it's about to skyrocket. Even at the munipulated low rates, this debt is absorbing our economies potential to grow, it's currently absorbing ALL of the potential for growth. We would be so lucky to get away with leaving this massive burden to the future, but the reality is that it's going to bite us all in the ass- it's already starting to now.

This is why it's so absurd to argue with liberals who's ideas are so far from the reality of a real solution. They think we can somehow keep growing government- they squeel like a stuck pig at every suggestion of cutting spending. The only thing they can point at- is anyone who has any money, so we can find more ways to steal it from them.

We can not grow ourselves out of this debt without massive reductions in the overbloated size of this government- federal, state and local. That's just the plain truth. But one way or the other, the idea of big government will collapse- with the fate of Americans tied to it.

We have to face the facts that the left's way of thinking has bankrupted us- that those ideas were pure poison. They have killed this country. Those ideas are rotten to the core, and we all must face the cruel reality that we are in serious trouble.

Any suggestion that we can fix even a tiny fraction of this problem by taking yet even more money away from those who earn it - is yet just another step in the same direction we have been headed in. We need to go the other way- give up these distructive ideas- the spenders must be defeated. We must get over the notion that we need government for anything more than the bare essentials.

It a hard row to hoe- but there's no other way out now except total except total economic collapse- because those ideas of big government have proven to come with disastrous consequences.

Only one course makes any logical sense, - massive cuts at all levels of government - government that we never could afford at these levels in the first place.

We need those cuts so the private sector can expand again, not just cut back spending to a balanced budget, but cuts well below what the government spends, so we can begin to pay back this debt and get ourselves back into a financially solvent position again.

If we don't- the consequences are dire for us, for our standard of living, and for the future of our country.

Start thinking differently.

If Bush would have just stopped spending so much money, we wouldn't be in the mess.