This video sent a chill down my spine. Maybe it was the music.
The Total Animated, Annotated US Debt
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2012
With debt ceilings being summarily dismissed and billions and trillions of dollars being thrown around like confetti, we have become almost entirely de-sensitized to the colossal size of the numbers involved (and to be frank de minimus impact from any ‘compromise’. In order to comprehend the size of the US Debt load, Demonocracy created this video visualized in physical $100 bills. And you thought a Jumbo-Jet full of cash was a lot…
ron says:
I can make 16 trillion look small by just typing it onto a computer screen.
Thats how folks in Washington see it.
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6th December 2012 at 7:46 pm
Stucky says:
Holy Shit. Incredible. Thank You.
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6th December 2012 at 8:12 pm
Stucky says:
I strongly encourage all to check out the web site;
http://demonocracy.info/
Not a lot of content, but what they have is amazing. 11 other videos like the one above.
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6th December 2012 at 8:17 pm
Stucky says:
Check out their web site.
http://demonocracy.info/
11 other great videos like the one above.
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6th December 2012 at 8:18 pm
Stucky says:
Fucking wordpress piece of shit.
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6th December 2012 at 8:19 pm
IndenturedServant says:
If you wanted to pay off the 16.394 Trillion dollar debt at the rate of $1,000,000 (one million) per day it would take almost 44,904 years. Modern humans have only been on the Earth for about 40,000 years.
Remember, that is one million dollars every day, 365 days per year with no days off! It was all accumulated in just 236 years!
If I recall correctly it was around September 5th when the debt rolled to $16T so we are accumulating debt at $131.3 billion dollars per month. That should work fine, right?
I_S
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6th December 2012 at 10:02 pm
a cruel accountant says:
Do not worry it is all just toilet paper.
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6th December 2012 at 10:48 pm
Stucky says:
IndenturedServant’s post got me to thinking other ways to visualize the debt. This is what I came up with. Using round numbers …
The avergae male has about 200,000,000 sperm per ejaculation. I’m above average, so let’s go with 250,000,000 Little Stuckey’s.
US National Debt under Obama is $3,750,000,000 per day.
That means I would have to pay EACH AND EVERY LIttle Stucky $15 fuckin dollars to retire the debt. Fortunately, since I ejaculate five times per day, each Little Stucky only gets three bucks … not even enough for a McShits Big Mac. So, the debt doesn’t seem to be so bad.
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I really don’t know how I come up with this shit.
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6th December 2012 at 11:26 pm
IndenturedServant says:
“I really don’t know how I come up with this shit.”
It just seems to flow out of you like fat boomer rants from AWD. I work with the most un-politically correct group of humans on Earth and the crap that flows from our pie-holes (and other holes) is much like what you post here Stucky. It is hard to believe we get paid for having so much fun. With only two or three exceptions, everyone I work with is self-supervising and takes enormous pride in what they do but we have a blast at work. You’d probably fit right in Stucky! I often joke that we should hire ourselves out as examples of how not to act at work and take our freak show on the road! We could be a demotivational comedy troupe.
I_S
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6th December 2012 at 12:41 am
Novista says:
I_S
Your crew sounds like the one best work experience ever I had, when we were building Ch 19 in Cincinnati in 1968. The chief engineer and production manager had worked together previously, were friends with the same attitudes, and called the initial crews together.
Now, traditionally, in TV stations, it was cats & dogs time. So they decreed, if there is a conflict, one of us will decide and y’all will accept the decision. It worked.
Damn,we had fun, working our asses off. We were building the studio facility when the building was not even complete. Unlike most seat-of-the-pants TV stations, when you build it from the ground up and do it right, it works so much better. Those early days, I’d go in, working out the cable distribution plan. Every cable labelled with a numerical code so anyone would know what was what. It was dead of winter and we’d drag one of those industrial heaters along, point it in the office. First came off the topcoat, etc. to shirtsleeves, and turn it off and reverse as the temperature dropped. Crazy.
By the time we’re getting to deadline for on-the-air, the head office decided they could not afford the overtime. And we kept working extra hours anyway. Put together what the trade papers said was the finest independent in the U.S.
So much for that. Then the corporate politics started. The chief engineer got ‘kind-of fired’ (they wanted him to go build the next station, in Atlanta.) Fugem, we all bailed. Three years later, they sold the station at a loss. I guess we were kind of a freak show, too, they didn’t know what to make of us and did not know what they had and spoiled.
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6th December 2012 at 6:54 am
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6th December 2012 at 10:12 am
Stucky says:
IndenturedServant
No doubt, we would have a blast. Especially during bullshit :management meetings” — 95% of which I have found to be totally worthless.
However, there is a dilemma. I need to respect the company I work for. But, how could I respect a company who would hire ME??
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6th December 2012 at 11:22 am
IndenturedServant says:
Novista said:
“they didn’t know what to make of us and did not know what they had and spoiled.”
We have have a local manager and he is one of us for sure. Our primary manager lives outside the US and visits about once a month. He has no idea just what a gold mine of self motivated individuals he has here. I’m sure he is absolutely mystified at how we are able to do what we do. He manages a “twin” to our company in another country. They have honest to God Engineers, new equipment, a new facility etc. We have a bunch of redneck hillbilly’s and no Engineers at all, old (30-50 years) equipment that has patches and repairs on top of patches and repairs, an old building in an industrial park, etc. Almost no one has any formal training in our current line of work yet we work circles around our “twin” overseas. Everything we do is higher quality, consistently exceeds specs, and we always meet or come in under budget for the month and our volumes dwarf the “twin” company. We do R&D on the fly, learn on the fly and modify our manufacturing processes on the fly. We even do our own maintenance on the fly. It’s a near perfect environment for self motivated employees. The only thing we do better than our work is have fun. I’m really going to miss it whenever it ends.
I_S
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6th December 2012 at 1:29 pm
D says:
Just how much is 16.394 trillion dollars in debt anyway??
Notes: “~” = “approximately”. “ND”=”National Debt”=”16.394T$”
- It would take a person spending 1,000$ every second ~519 years to create that much debt. (ND/(60*60*24*365.25*1E3))
- It would take a person spending 1 million$ every second ~6.2 months to create that much debt. (ND/(60*60*24*365.25*1E6))*12
- It would reach to the sun and back ~8.5 times (1$ bills layed lengthwise end to end). (ND/# of bills/2 –> ND/(93e6*5280*12/6.14)/2
- It would fill the Empire State Bldg. ~18 times (using 1$ bills). (ND*bill vol(ci)/ESB vol(ci)–> ND*6.14*2.61*0.0043/61,450,910,304
- It would cover ~24.4% of the land area of TX. (ND*bill area in^2/(TX Land area mi^2*in^2/mi^2)) –> ND*6.14*2.61/(268580.82*4014489600)
- It would completely cover the land area of Washington DC ~958 times (which is a layer or stack that is over 4 inches thick). (ND*bill area in^2/(DC Land area mi^2*in^2/mi^2)) –> ND*6.14*2.61/(68.34*4014489600)
- 52,210$ for each US citizen (every man, woman, & child — ~314 citizens). (ND/314E6)
And, finally, it would take one greedily run national govt to spend ~94% of that total debt amount within the last ~31 years.
Remember, there has really been no significant shortage of anything in the US for the past 31 years. What we have is an abundance of greed that has created the US debt.
Vote for candidates who are serious about paying down the national debt & vote against candidates who speak bunkum about getting serious about *deficit* spending under control over the next 10 years–or whatever disingenuous nonsense that they blather on about.
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6th December 2012 at 10:41 pm