By Rep. Ron Estes | The Daily Signal
Maybe you’ve heard that our national debt has topped $34.7 trillion. But what does that really mean for you and your family?
The number is somewhat incomprehensible. To spell it out, that’s thirty-four trillion, seven hundred and twenty-five billion, eight hundred and fifty million, three hundred and twenty-three thousand, six hundred and eight dollars.
That number is 14 digits long, and it grows by about $100,000 every second.
If our national debt were printed in one-dollar bills, you could make 10 stacks of bills from the earth to the moon. If our national debt were in seconds, it would equate to 1,095,641 years. According to the National Geophysical Data Center, there are just over 321 million cubic miles of water in all of the Earth’s oceans. If the national debt were cubic miles of water, we could fill our oceans 107,638 times.
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