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The U.S. National Debt In Pennies
The projected unfunded U.S. National debt which includes the money required to fund medicare, Question: If the National debt was converted into pennies which were stacked neatly A. The National Debt in pennies would be as high as Mt Everest. B. The National Debt in pennies would go from the Earth to the Moon C. The National Debt in pennies would go from the Earth to Mars D. The National Debt in pennies would go from the Earth to the Sun E. The National Debt in pennies would go from the Earth to Jupiter F. The National Debt in pennies would go from the Earth to Pluto
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Here are the facts: The height or thickness of one penny is 1.55 milimeters or .061 inches. A hundred dollars is equal to 10,000 pennies. The height of 10,000 pennies is 610 inches or 51 feet. One hundred thousand dollars is equal to ten million pennies. The height of $100,000 in pennies is 50,853 feet. Since the are 5,280 feet in a mile, the height in miles is 9.63 mi. The height of one million dollars or 100 million pennies is 96.31 miles. That's right near the edge of outer space. If you guessed "A", you're wrong! It's taller than Mt. Everest! The distance to the moon is 238,857 miles. One Billion Dollars is equal to 100 billion pennies. The height of one billion dollars in pennnies is 96,312 miles. Almost halfway to the moon. A mere 3 billion dollars puts it past the moon. If you guessed "B", you're wrong! Next comes Mars. The planet Mars is about 36 million miles away. One trillion dollars is equal to 100 trillion pennies. That's 100,000,000,000,000 pennies. The height of one trillion dollars in pennies is 96,312,534 miles. (Over 96 million miles) If you guesed "C -Mars", you are wrong! The sun is about 93 million miles. If you guessed "D - The Sun", you are wrong!! What about Jupiter? Jupiter is about 365 million miles away. The National Debt without the projected unfunded liabilities for medicare, medicaid, and social security is over 13 trillion dollars. (It will hit 14 trillion next year in 2011). That's 1,300,000,000,000,000 or 1.3 Quadrillion pennies! The height of the National debt in pennies is over 1.2 billion miles. That would go to Jupiter and back twice! If you guessed "E Jupiter" you are wrong! So if you guessed Pluto, are you right? It is the best guess but actually, no you are also wrong. The distance to Pluto is 2.66 billion miles. However, the unfunded National Debt of 40 trillion dollars is equal to 4 quadrillion pennies. A stack of 4 quadrillion pennnies would be 3.85 billion miles high. It would go over a billion miles past pluto. The correct answer is The National Debt in Pennies would go
Something must be done about this massive debt we have accumulated or the dollar will become worthless. Both parties are at fault. Republicans and Democrats have both failed to solve this problem. People have to wake up and get our polititans to attack this problem. Send a link to this page to everyone you know and add a bookmark to it on Facebook.
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