{"id":18,"date":"2009-06-09T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-09-21T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T11:36:38","slug":"unfathomable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/archives\/18","title":{"rendered":"Unfathomable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but I find it awfully hard to comprehend the numbers flying around in describing the massive debt load of the U.S. government.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s something that might help.<\/p>\n<p>Today it was announced that 68 billion dollars of TARP money would be paid back to the Treasury. \u00a0If every one of those dollars was a second, how many years would this sum represent?\u00a0 The answer is 2,156 years OR 147 years before Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Just for curiosity, I thought I would run the numbers for 1 trillion of debt.\u00a0 The answer to this question is truly unfathomable at 31,710 years.\u00a0 I leave you to wrestle with the implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but I find it awfully hard to comprehend the numbers flying around in describing the massive debt load of the U.S. government.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s something that might help. Today it was announced that 68 billion dollars of TARP money would be paid back to the Treasury. \u00a0If every one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}