Cool visual of America's National Debt...

Spit · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:24

http://www.wtfnoway.com/

:eek:

Shayper · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:25

OOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllddddddddddddddddd.

Old.

Swifty123 · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:26

Now to get $1 trillion

Castiel · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:27

Shayper said:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllddddddddddddddddd.

Old.

Not for me. I found it quite interesting actually.

Spit · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:30

I don't fully understand the unfunded bit, anyone explain?

hola_adios · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:30

Also, "nice" to look at:

US debt clock

and

http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html

Shayper · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:34

Castiel said:
Not for me. I found it quite interesting actually.

I found it interesting as well, however seeing it several times in various places takes the edge off a little

Castiel · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:37

Spit said:
I don't fully understand the unfunded bit, anyone explain?

Unfunded liabilities like public service pensions and such like.

Pawnless Endgame · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:37

New to me. Cheers :-)

Reaper 392 · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:38

Swifty123 said:
Now to get $1 trillion

I am Nigerian Prince hope for inherit USD1trillion. give your bank details I transfer you USD1trillion

Dj_Jestar · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:41

Spit said:
I don't fully understand the unfunded bit, anyone explain?

It's stuff they will have to pay for in the future, but don't have anything to pay for it at the moment. It's the total cost of all the buy-now-pay-later schemes the USA has signed up for, including state pensions, healthcare, etc.

Evoss · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:45

Thats a big number

explicit4u · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:46

lol

Why are they considered a rich country if they're in so much ****?

Psymonkee · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:52

Nice, never seen that before!

Biohazard · 24 Jul 2011 at 23:57

explicit4u said:
lol

Why are they considered a rich country if they're in so much ****?

Appearances can be decieving.

drunkenmaster · 25 Jul 2011 at 00:00

Dj_Jestar said:
It's stuff they will have to pay for in the future, but don't have anything to pay for it at the moment. It's the total cost of all the buy-now-pay-later schemes the USA has signed up for, including state pensions, healthcare, etc.

Yes, that unfunded debt is pretty bad seeing as its 10 times their current actual debt, apparently our "real" debt including things like pensions is 2 trillion is it, 1-1.2 is the current debt(I can never remember which is the current number and what the forecast for the year number is, somewhere in there I think) but the newer real number they want to use is around 2 tril and includes pensions, I'm not sure if that new number includes all the same crap that 115trillion number for the USA includes, or just the pensions?

Either way, they are pretty screwed, and we're pretty screwed.

Rameses · 25 Jul 2011 at 00:03

Cosimo · 25 Jul 2011 at 08:28

Not seen 114.5 trillion dollars before.

hola_adios · 25 Jul 2011 at 08:33

simulatorman said:
Not seen 114.5 trillion dollars before.

In 100s you mean?

_Jimlad_ · 25 Jul 2011 at 08:37

look at the last picture of the mega money tower, the dude left the truck on the top