06/01/10
Congress is on
its holiday break this week
but there is no break in the steady
increase of the national debt:
Now up to
an astounding $13 trillion.
You might have noticed
both parties talking more about
the deficit lately,
but the debt
just keeps on climbing.
How much is $13 trillion?
If you placed 13 trillion
one-dollar bills end-to-end,
you could create a line extending
all the way to Jupiter and back.
It took the federal government
206 years to hit
the first trillion dollars in debt,
and to go from $12 trillion to
$13 trillion, just six months.
We will have a debt,
on the course we're on,
of 400% of
our gross domestic product
and that will bury us.
議会は今週 休みだが
国の債務は休みなく増え続け―
今では何と13兆ドルに達している。
財政赤字の議論より
債務の増加が深刻だ。
13兆ドルとはどれぐらいなのか。
1ドル紙幣を13兆枚つなげると―
木星まで行って帰って来られる
長さになる。
債務が1兆ドルを超えるのに
206年かかったが―
12兆ドルから13兆ドルへは
半年で増えた。
このままの調子で増えると
債務はGDPの400％に達し―
手に負えなくなります。
