Visualization of US Debt and Visualizing What a TRILLION DOLLARS Looks Like
From WTFNoway.com
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
$100 - The Most counterfeited money denomination in the world.
Keeps the world moving.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
$10,000 - Enough for a great vacation or to buy a used car.
Approximately one year for the average human on earth.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
$1.000,000 - Not as big of a pile as you thought, huh?
Still, this is 92 years of work for the average human on earth.
ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
$100,000,000 - Plenty to go around for everyone.
Fits nicely on an ISO/Military standard sized pallet.
$100,000,000 - Plenty to go around for everyone.
Fits nicely on an ISO/Military standard sized pallet.
ONE BILLION DOLLARS
$1,000,000,000 - You will need some help when robbing the bank.
Now we are getting serious.
ONE TRILLION DOLLARS
$1,000,000.000,000 - When the U.S. Government speaks about a 1.7 trillion deficit, this is the volume of cash the U.S. Government borrowed to run itself. Keep in mind it is double stacked pallets of $100 million dollars each, full of $100 bills. You are going to need a lot of trust to haul this around.
If you spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, you would not have spent a$1 trillion by now . . . but . . $700 billiion - same amount banks got during the bailout.
ONE TRILLION COMPARISON
$1,000,000,000,000 - Shown next to a standard sized American football field and European football field. That's a Boeing 747-400.
FIFTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS
$15,000,000,000,000 - Unless the U.S. Government fixes the budget, U.S. national debt (credit card bill) will topple 15 trillion by Christmas 2011.
The Statue of Liberty seems rather worried as the United States national debt passes 20% of the entire world's combined GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In 2011 the Natiional debt will exceed 100% of GDP, and venture into the 100%+ debt-to-GDP ratio that the European PIGGS have (banking nations).
ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN POINT 5 TRILLION DOLLARS
$114,500,000,000,000 - U.S. Unfunded liabilities
To the right you can see the pillar of cold had $100 bills that dwarfs the WTC & Empire State Building - both at one point the world's tallest buildings. If you look carefully, you can see the Statue of Liberty.
The 114.5 trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government knows it does not have to fully fund Medicare, Medicare Perscription Drug Program, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions. It is the money the USA knows it will not have to pay all its bills.
To the right you can see the pillar of cold had $100 bills that dwarfs the WTC & Empire State Building - both at one point the world's tallest buildings. If you look carefully, you can see the Statue of Liberty.
The 114.5 trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government knows it does not have to fully fund Medicare, Medicare Perscription Drug Program, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions. It is the money the USA knows it will not have to pay all its bills.
Source: Federal Reserve & www.USdebtclock.org - visit it to see the debt in real time and get a better grasp of this amazing number.