JAMES MADISON QUOTE - 1822

"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

The Weight of Our National Debt



I was contemplating the weight of our national debt. Each of us are strapped for over $30,000.00 each in the payback of the debt. As of this writing the debt approaches $9,213,030,000,000.00, that's 9 trillion plus, http://zfacts.com/p/461.html How much would this enormous debt weigh? Math discloses the current weight to be approximately 202,686,616 pounds, 101,343.3 tons (utilizing $100 notes to form the package), a Nimitz class aircraft carrier weighs 97,000 tons. That would take 5067 tractor and trailer rigs loaded at 40,000 pounds each to haul the load, an extreme haul. Imagine a 65 mile long truck train if lined up bumper to bumper. The haul and the debt grows in weight rapidly. 1 cool million in $100 notes weighs approximately 22 pounds.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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