I just finished one of Heinlein’s essays (the last one in the Expanded Universe), where he projects the 1980 deficit. He then marvels at how our government at our government would be half a trillion in debt, and points out the staggering amount that is a trillion. He uses the fact that the Earth’s pole star will change from Polaris to Alrai to Alvahat to Vega and back to Polaris in the time it takes you to count to a trillion– if you count up by one every second of every day… for a little less than 32,000 years. (31,709, to be exact.)
Be glad Bob was cremated– Southern California probably couldn’t stand the vibrations if he wasn’t… because he’d be SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE. Right now, we’re over $13,000,000,000,000 (thirteen trillion) in debt and climbing. That means every citizen (not just the taxpayers) owes over $42,000 in debt.
And you wonder why our economy is bad? Hell, not even “bad” anymore– unbelievable, in every aspect– the debt, our unemployment… heck, even the statistics are bad.
