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How much is a trillion dollars?
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:55 pm
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:55 pm
The regular person has no idea how much money is a trillion dollars. To get an idea how much money that is, I asked the question...
How long would it take to count, by ones, to a trillion?
The answer... 31,000 years.
People don't really know the hole that we are truly in. Even if we were to profit $500 billion per year, it would take 72 years to pay back our deficit.
A balanced budget is just the start.
How long would it take to count, by ones, to a trillion?
The answer... 31,000 years.
People don't really know the hole that we are truly in. Even if we were to profit $500 billion per year, it would take 72 years to pay back our deficit.
A balanced budget is just the start.
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Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:56 pm to geauxkoo
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:58 pm to geauxkoo
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The regular person has no idea how much money is a trillion dollars.
The problem is that neither do the people making the decisions.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:58 pm to geauxkoo
He was overall a bad president, but George bush was absolutely on the right side of history re: his 2003 plan to invest social security and Medicare funds into the market. We wouldn’t be in this whole if that money was allowed to grow at even below avg return rates.
Basically, we had a chance in the 90s and early 2000s to prevent Medicare and ss from ballooning into giant deficits and we chose to stick our fingers in our ears. Both parties are to blame.
Basically, we had a chance in the 90s and early 2000s to prevent Medicare and ss from ballooning into giant deficits and we chose to stick our fingers in our ears. Both parties are to blame.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:58 pm to geauxkoo
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How much is a trillion dollars?
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:59 pm to geauxkoo
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How much is a trillion dollars?
A bunch.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:00 pm to geauxkoo
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:01 pm to geauxkoo
here is another way to explain how much debt we have
a light year is 6 trillion miles~
we have so much debt, that if ever dollar was a mile, we could literally reach he nearest habitable planet Proxima Centauri b
a light year is 6 trillion miles~
we have so much debt, that if ever dollar was a mile, we could literally reach he nearest habitable planet Proxima Centauri b
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:01 pm to geauxkoo
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Even if we were to profit $500 billion per year, it would take 72 years to pay back our deficit.
Sadly, it's way worse than this..
At a 3% interest rate, the deficit would be $179 T after 72 years.. despite making $36 T in debt payments..
The interest obligation at that point would be > $5 T each year.
This post was edited on 2/13/25 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:01 pm to cajunangelle
They’ll just make a $1 trillion dollar bill
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Both parties are to blame.
Both parties are always to blame. They're two sides of the same trick coin.
The Establishment Uniparty reigns supreme without question. They are the Elite Etatist Kleptocracy.
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:02 pm to cajunangelle
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:04 pm to finchmeister08
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How much is a trillion dollars?
It`s a million million
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:11 pm to Codythetiger
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we could literally reach he nearest habitable planet Proxima Centauri b
If we used the fastest aircraft in the world (4,965 mph), we could reach Proxima Centauri B in 135,193 years..
If you look at Proxima Centauri B through a telescope, you are seeing its "present" as it was 4.2 light-years ago because light takes that amount of time to travel from Proxima Centauri B to Earth, meaning you are seeing the planet as it was that long ago, not as it is today; essentially, you are looking into the past.
So yeah, 36 trillion is a shite ton of debt.
That's open up an interesting idea though.. If we could somehow jump there in the blink of an eye.. Would it be the same that we see through the telescope? If so, could we then look at Earth through a telescope and see the past? And jump back to Earth.. into the past?
I think I just solved Time Travel.
This post was edited on 2/13/25 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:18 pm to geauxkoo
1,000 BILLION dollars. I keep telling everybody the same thing. We’ve thrown that word around so much you would think it’s chump change.
This post was edited on 2/13/25 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:19 pm to geauxkoo
Not if Trump declares the majority of the debt as being odious.
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Odious debt
In international law, odious debt, also known as illegitimate debt, is a legal theory that says that the national debt incurred by a despotic regime should not be enforceable. Such debts are, thus, considered by this doctrine to be personal debts of the government that incurred them and not debts of the state
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:36 pm to geauxkoo
G Gordon Liddy had a good way to explain just how much a billion dollars was.
He would start by asking if you had a million dollars and spend 1000$ per day how long would it take you to spend it. Well, the answer is about 3 years.
If you had a billion dollars and spent $1000/day, how long would that take to spend it. The answer is about 3000 years.
Now if you had a trillion dollars and spent $1000/day it would take you 3 million years to spend it.
Wow
He would start by asking if you had a million dollars and spend 1000$ per day how long would it take you to spend it. Well, the answer is about 3 years.
If you had a billion dollars and spent $1000/day, how long would that take to spend it. The answer is about 3000 years.
Now if you had a trillion dollars and spent $1000/day it would take you 3 million years to spend it.
Wow
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:38 pm to geauxkoo
A lot more than all of us on these boards combined will ever have?!?! 
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:41 pm to geauxkoo
And 36 trillion is basically $100s stacked to the stratosphere and back!
Posted on 2/13/25 at 6:47 pm to ruzil
2740 years to be more accurate. You could have spent $1MM per day since 715 BC and hit ONE trillion in 2025.
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