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Pastimes : How Much Is The National Debt Today? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dawgfan2000 who wrote (43)	7/18/2004 12:15:10 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 110

$ 7 , 2 7 6 , 8 7 4 , 4 7 1 , 7 1 3 . 5 3 The Outstanding Public Debt as of 18 Jul 2004 at 04:08:53 PM GMT is: $ 7 , 2 7 6 , 8 7 4 , 4 7 1 , 7 1 3 . 5 3 The estimated population of the United States is 293,768,379 so each citizen's share of this debt is $24,770.79. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.69 billion per day since September 30, 2003 brillig.com ---- as you've noted, there's been quite an upwards bump recently ----

To: dawgfan2000 who wrote (43)	7/22/2004 8:10:27 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 110

$ 7 , 2 8 3 , 7 9 6 , 5 3 8 , 9 3 8 . 1 4 as of 22 Jul 2004 at 11:56:34 AM GMT the outstanding national debt is at: $ 7 , 2 8 3 , 7 9 6 , 5 3 8 , 9 3 8 . 1 4 The estimated population of the United States is 293,792,813 so each citizen's share of this debt is $24,792.29. Well, about a week has passed by. The debt climbed another $13,322,533,327.58. I've (rather casually) been keeping track of the amount of each individual's share of the debt for the past few days. About 4 days ago, it stood at $24,770.79 -- so the individual's share of the debt has increased by approximately $21.50. Make that times a family of 4, and that's an increase of about $86.00 in 4 days? Kinda nuts, don't you think? How the crap will that ever be even partially paid down? If a family got themselves into the hole this fast on their own, they'd probably lose their credit and be on the run from baseball-bat-toting collection dudes. <g/ng>