Is 9.118 trillion dollars just too much to imagine?
http://brillig.com/debt_clock/
2007-11-14 01:03:22 · 18 answers · asked by Zardoz 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Every day on YA people state America is in great financial shape.
2007-11-14 01:13:11 · update #1
as silly as it may seem we have all seen what a UFO and a spook , alien look like from the TV and would recognize it. if one was outside your door
I have never seen what a million dollars looks like......
A Billion dollars is way beyond my tiny mind. but I have heard of Billionaires..... they have nice houses......
yachts etc
I trillion dollars ? cant even picture it ..... have no idea
but what I DO understand is that EVERY man woman and child in the US currently owes 30 thousand bucks
to pay off the National Debt. I DO UNDERSTAND 30 grand...... growing by the second...... multiplied by all the people in the US thats alot of money
2007-11-14 01:31:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Count me out on the UFO's and ghosts part. The national debt is real and the interest payment is the largest amount in our annual budget.
Spend a lot of time worrying about your debt and see if that helps you pay it. Bash on the current president for the debt and try to use that to sell an entitlements president, but I digress....
We cannot do much about it. But we can focus on spending. And so far, all I see from the Liberals, ABC guy, is that they want to increase social spending and raise taxes. How does that really address the national debt?
2007-11-14 09:13:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That is the best question I have seen for some time. I would like to know too. My guesses are - ignorance, one of the lowest levels of education in the western world, a Trillion being an unimaginable number to most, national debt and its problems is an abstract entity for most.
Some debt might be good, but if its as high as the GDP, it will hamper growth.
(To a former contributar, the interest for the national debt is huge, but the entire military budget is higher, 1 Trillion).
2007-11-14 09:14:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I know the debt is real, and I have seen something that could only be described as a UFO. Never seen a ghost though.
2007-11-14 09:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by booman17 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know anyone myself who denies it's existence. There probably are some but I haven't met any. The debt is about 3 or 4 times the entire amount our country can produce in a single year. Probably about 15 or more times the entire tax base of our country. In other words its not going to get paid. And there is nothing we can currently do about it. We can believe in it but like death it's an inevitable bad thing we can do nothing to stop.
2007-11-14 09:11:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I happen to believe in the debt is a problem.
Now for UFO and ghost stories I refer you to Dennis Kucinich.
So before you go on rant ask yourself one is it that it is an issue only when a Republican is in the White House?
2007-11-14 10:18:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only 33% of Americans believe that. The national debt is real, but that doesnt mean its our fault. You know it WOULD be less without social programs
2007-11-14 09:49:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in either ghosts or ufo's...
To believe in Ghosts you must then believe in an afterlife.. well, that's a bit of a stretch don't you think.
The national debt, when Clinton was in office is said to have gone down... Did it? And what was the price we as Americans paid to have it lower? Our taxes were at an all time high, which in turn ruined the economy. Along with other things the Clintons did.
Does the National Debt have any effect on you or I.... very little if anything. What does affect us, is lower taxes, which spurs a strong economy.... It's really quite simple, and the fact that most people don't understand it, is quite shocking to me.
2007-11-14 09:16:38 · answer #8 · answered by damond h 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
It's the SETI program.
$1,600,000 for the Allen Telescope Array, added by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.). This project first appeared in the 2005 Congressional Pig Book and has received a total of $5.6 million. It is part of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), which describes the telescope as “dedicated to astronomical and simultaneous search for extra-terrestrial intelligence observations.”
2007-11-14 09:15:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
People believe the National Debt is real. Who says they don't?
2007-11-14 09:07:43 · answer #10 · answered by mmatthews000 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋