Federal debt nears $16 trillion, with no easy way
Aug 25, 2012 7:06:59 GMT -5
Post by popcorn on Aug 25, 2012 7:06:59 GMT -5
Federal debt nears $16 trillion, with no easy way to pay it down 
In the time it takes you to read this story, the U.S. debt will have grown by about $4.4. million.
The debt is now lurking just under the $16 trillion mark -- a number huge enough to be almost incomprehensible to the layperson. One way to visualize its magnitude: If you were to spend a dollar every second, it would take you 32,000 years to spend $1 trillion, or a mere one-16th of the debt.
"The national debt is certainly a ticking time bomb. There's no question that if we don't do something about it, it's going to go off," says Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/24/federal-debt-nears-16-trillion-with-no-easy-way-to-pay-it-down/#ixzz24YimPMKC
In the time it takes you to read this story, the U.S. debt will have grown by about $4.4. million.
The debt is now lurking just under the $16 trillion mark -- a number huge enough to be almost incomprehensible to the layperson. One way to visualize its magnitude: If you were to spend a dollar every second, it would take you 32,000 years to spend $1 trillion, or a mere one-16th of the debt.
"The national debt is certainly a ticking time bomb. There's no question that if we don't do something about it, it's going to go off," says Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/24/federal-debt-nears-16-trillion-with-no-easy-way-to-pay-it-down/#ixzz24YimPMKC