If a trillion dollar bills were placed in a single pile, it would reach about a quarter of the way to the moon, but the entire US National Debt would go to the Moon and back twice.
On the other hand, if the trillion dollars were changed into one cent coins and they were put into a pile, it would stretch all the way to the Sun.
So how hard is it to spend a trillion dollars? If you spent one dollar every second, you would have spent a million dollars in twelve days. At that same rate, it would take you 32 years to spend a billion dollars. But it would take you more than 31,000 years to spend a trillion dollars.
The U.S. national debt rises at an average of approximately $3.8 billion per day.
according to the 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government, which is an official United States government report, the total liabilities of the United States government, including future social security and medicare payments that the U.S. government is already committed to pay out, now exceed 65 TRILLION dollars.
