Debt

The total U.S. debt is 16.8 trillion dollars and counting.

For most of us it's difficult to fathom even what one trillion dollars really is.

Sure it's a million millions, or a thousand billions, but beyond that it is hard to understand what a trillion is except to say that's a lot of money.

If we look at it another way the understanding of the amount becomes mind-boggling.

If someone started counting seconds, like one...two....three, the moment that Jesus Christ was born that person would be up to over sixty five billion seconds now.

That is six point five percent of a trillion.

It takes thirty one thousand seven hundred years to count to a trillion seconds.

That is three hundred and seventeen centuries and we are only in the very beginning of the 21st century.