We all know our national debt is in the trillions and growing by trillions every year but does anyone really know how much a trillion dollars really is?
I trillion is 1 followed by twelve zeroes. Not real meaningful, OK, a trillion is a million millions. Better but still…
OK. I think we each have a penny left from our pay.
A penny is ¾ of an inch in diameter.
A grid of 100 pennies ($1 dollar) is 7.5 by 7.5 inches.
A grid of 10,000 pennies ($100) is 6.25 by 6.25 feet.
A grid of 1,000,000 pennies ($10,000) is 62.5 by 62.5 feet, a little bigger than a baseball diamond.
A grid of a trillion pennies ($10,000,000) is 11.84 miles on a side.
The national debt is in excess of $25 trillion dollars but for our purposes I’m going to stick with 25, the math is easier.
A grid of 25 trillion pennies is 69.19 MILES on a side. And that’s just pennies.
We multiply that by 100 to get dollars and our grid expands to a whopping 691.86 miles on a side, that’s about from Madison, WI to Oxford, MS. In other words, $25 trillion dollars in pennies would cover most of the continental United States.
Or you’d have to drive in your Lamborghini (you’re share of the national debt) at 60 mph for 9.86 hours to navigate just one side.
We have to end this madness. This debt will have to be paid back at some point. We either become slaves to this debt or we collapse as a nation.
We need to call a Convention of States before it’s too late to discuss a balanced budget and other restraints on our federal government.
Go to conventionofstates.com to learn more and then decide if you want to unite with the over 5 million patriots already fighting for our country, our freedom, our Constitution and our children's future. And please spread the word! Thank you if you’re already involved.
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