$17,038,625,000,000So apparently we hit 17 trillion dollar debt mark sometime without me knowing about it. But seriously,
$17 trillion dollars. That's 12 zeros. We are the country with the most debt on the planet. We have more debt than the entire European Union combined. And yet some of us still think they can honestly call the U.S the wealthiest country on earth? Really?
I'm not saying what we should do about it, but we should do SOMETHING about it shouldn't we? All I ever hear us doing in regards to this nowadays is "raise the debt limit!" When are we going to realize that this is an incredibly serious problem? When my parents were kids the debt was only in the billions, when did this happen!?
I feel like eventually China and all these other countries are going to realize that we're never paying them back and they're just going to stop trading with us entirely and watch the U.S implode on itself. Or they're going to come and take what we owe them.
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this is somewhat relevantSo anyways, yeah I just felt like complaining about this.
/endrant /discuss