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The United States' Debt
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$100 ... One HUNDRED dollars

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for a week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

$10,000 ... TEN THOUSAND dollars

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 MILLION dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff it all into a grocery bag and walk around with it. Not recommended.

$1,000,000 ... One MILLION dollars

And while a measly $1 million looks a little unimpressive, $100 million dollars is a little more respectable. It all fits neatly on a standard pallet.

$100,000,000 ... One HUNDRED MILLION dollars

And $1 BILLION dollars? Now we're really getting somewhere.

$1,000,000,000 ... One BILLION dollars

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago nobody walked on two feet on the planet Earth.

Next we'll look at one TRILLION dollars. This is the number we've been hearing so much about, lately. What is a trillion dollars? It's a million million dollars. It's a thousand billion dollars. It's a one followed by 12 zeros. Are you ready? It's pretty shocking. Go ahead. Scroll down. Ladies and gentlemen, here's $1 trillion dollars.

$1,000,000,000,000 ... One TRILLION dollars

$1,000,000,000,000 ... One TRILLION dollars again, just for scale

$15,000,000,000,000 ... Fifteen TRILLION dollars (the U.S. debt in 2011)

$114.5 TRILLION (Just for scale)
That's One Hundred Fourteen TRILLION, Five hundred BILLION dollars

Factoids     

One Trillion seconds equals 31,000 years.

It would take a person just under 32 years* without stopping just to count up to 1 Billion.

It would take a person 31,688 years without stopping to count up to 1 Trillion.

As of June 2010, the U.S. debt was 13 TRILLION dollars, which equals $42,000 for every American man, woman and child.

*One number per second.

Now you know!

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