Size of the U.S. Debt Visualized in 3D
Thursday July 21st, 2011 • Posted by Emily Skarbek at 9:18am PDT • 2 Comments
What do you think is taller: the Empire State Building or cube of $114 trillion dollars??? Check it out here!
The 114.5 Trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government
knows it does not have to fully fund the Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Program,
social security, military and civil servant pensions. It is the money USA knows it will not
have to pay all its bills.
HT: Jeffrey Horn
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Excellent! Almost threw myself under a bus after looking it over but at least it drives the point home...
Sending this to as many people as I know, and I won’t be surprised if they consider doing the same thing if they realize the implications.
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