How much is $17 trillion? Visualized for reference. - Lateral-g Forums

Fluid Power · #1 07-05-2012, 07:07 AM

http://demonocracy.info/infographics...t/us_debt.html

This is nuts.

Darren

Rick D · #2 07-05-2012, 07:24 AM

**WSSix** · #3 07-05-2012, 07:55 AM

It's rather scary that most people hear these numbers all day long while listing to the news but they have no real concept of just how much a trillion is or even how much a billion dollars is.

Bucketlist2012 · #4 07-05-2012, 10:44 AM

Scary is that the government has liabilities of between 13 and 17 Trillion dollars..

Their assets are 1.5 trillion.. 35% of their assets are Student Loans..Mortgages are 9%. Misc., and tax receivable are 25%..

How do you run a business when your assets are that low, and your Debt is that high, and student loans are the largest chunk of your "assets"...

ErikLS2 · #5 07-05-2012, 03:35 PM

Wow, we better all get off of Lat-G and get back to work, the government needs our money!

**parsonsj** · #6 07-05-2012, 03:45 PM

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How do you run a business when your assets are that low, and your Debt is that high, and student loans are the largest chunk of your "assets"...

If the Federal government was a business that would matter.