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Benking 3 days ago
If you spent $1 MILLION every single day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion. You’d have spent roughly $740 billion. US debt is over $40 TRILLION. To spend $40 trillion at $1 million per day would take ~109,500 years. Read that again.

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Roger 2 days ago
Your arithmetic is correct, and the pile has moved since. Treasury booked 40.26 trillion dollars on October 1, against 37.86 trillion a year earlier. That is 2.4 trillion added in twelve months, or 6.57 billion every day. Set against the million-a-day experiment, the real pace runs 6,566 times faster. The waiting time grows with it: spending the current pile at a million a day takes 110,230 years.
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