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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 04:09 AM
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Here's something you might want to add to your posts - DEBT CLOCK.


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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 04:14 AM
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1. HOLY CRAPOLA !!
"The estimated population of the United States is 294,862,670
so each citizen's share of this debt is $25,266.59"

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/





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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 05:48 AM
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4. That's nothin

well, not exactly nothin, something more like $100,000 for every
family in the US, a number possibly as large as the average family
mortgage.

BUT, when you add in the expected budgets and obligations for the
next 25 years (as the boomers go through retirement)... the expected
debt for each family skyrockets.
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laheina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 07:53 AM
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6. Funny.
That's roughly the amount of outstanding US currency. Now all we have to do is hunt down every Russian cabbie, terrorist, and Columbian drug lord with a fat wad of US bills, and get our damn money back.

Could work, ya think? :shrug:
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ogradda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 04:15 AM
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2. can we put that in our sig line?
eom.
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MatrixEscape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 05:10 AM
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3. Just one trillion is an aweful lot ...
I think it is a stack of $1000 bills around 62 miles high. Mucho dinaro!

Just think of what could be done to improve the World with even a small portion of that.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 06:37 AM
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5. I want to know too.
:bounce:
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 07:55 AM
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7. yep.
Edited on Mon Nov-22-04 07:55 AM by obreaslan
Right click, select "properties" , copy the URL and paste in into your signature.
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huellewig Donating Member (700 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 08:00 AM
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8. This should do it..


Just add the img tag.

This pick is also neto in a "I want to bankrupt my unborn child kinda way."



That pic does not account for inflation.

And, right click the numbers to get the url for the image.
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