See the man in the bottom corner?

These are stacks of $100 Bills.




We are sixteen of those in debt.



Still think our country is going to get out of debt?

9/17/2012 2:25:15 AM

9/17/2012 2:26:20 AM

showing the size of the cash it would take is absolutely pointless.

9/17/2012 2:28:38 AM

yes "absolutely pointless". completely pointless. no point whatsoever.















even though $100s are our highest denomination of bills and yet there seems to be a "shortage" of money where we need to print more and more and more

9/17/2012 2:32:30 AM

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"These are stacks of $100 Bills."

false

first of all, i can tell by the pixels, as i've seen a few photoshops in my time

but lets say they are stacks of $100 bills

are they bound by money wraps? i don't see any other way loose bills would be able to be stacked so neatly without some type of wind blowing them askew, even in a vacuum...but its obviously not a vaccum if thats a real person in the corner

second, what are those gaps aka gridlines? are those palettes or something? if they're any type of gaps that aren't actual money, that photograph is disingenuous at best

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"$100s are our highest denomination of bills"

also patently false...why bring up the $100,000 bill when i could just as easily prove you wrong by bringing up the $500 bill

[Edited on September 17, 2012 at 2:39 AM. Reason : .]

9/17/2012 2:37:12 AM

i heard it would take like 28000 years to print that much money on one press.

9/17/2012 2:38:12 AM

Same reason why you see your hand and not atoms of your hand

9/17/2012 2:39:11 AM

why wouldnt the bills lower down in the photograph be shorter and compressed from the weight of the bills on top of them?

definitely a photoshop

9/17/2012 2:43:31 AM

Which section is the $2.7 billion Romney took for the Olympics?

9/17/2012 2:44:00 AM

I do see atoms of my hand. Now make me a pizza, bitch.

9/17/2012 2:44:37 AM

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"why wouldnt the bills lower down in the photograph be shorter and compressed from the weight of the bills on top of them? definitely a photoshop"

They're in space, duh. Can't you see all the white around them. Located right next to a supernova. Gosh

9/17/2012 2:45:48 AM

This means nothing to me. If you could have shown me $1T worth of pizzas stacked up, we might get somewhere.

9/17/2012 5:19:16 AM

If you don't think our nations debt is important or realize the enormity of it then you are an idiot.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Look long and hard at those numbers. Se how much you personally would have to pay right now to get the US out of debt. Look at how many citizens actually pay taxes.
We have too many freeloaders in this country and this shit aint free.

9/17/2012 5:38:05 AM

I believe that we have too many people who reap the benefits of this country without contributing their fair share to the infrastructure and social programs that helped make it great.

9/17/2012 5:41:52 AM

^commie

9/17/2012 5:43:31 AM

BUT WOMEN GET FREE BIRTH CONTROL LOL

9/17/2012 5:45:29 AM

this is so old.

why don't you go ahead and post the whole infographic if you bothered making the thread?

pretty cool results:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&biw=1152&bih=620&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=US+debt+infographic

this is an amazing one, but not the same:
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/world_debt/world_debt.html

also not the same, but nice:
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-24/wall_street/31390709_1_pension-funds-derivative-exposure-bailout
http://www.visualinformation.info/tag/usa-debt
http://bucharestexpat.com/2011/08/the-streets-are-paved-with-gold

9/17/2012 5:58:48 AM

Come on guys, the debt clock is just a tactic to scare all us suckers. We shouldn't worry about how much we spend.

9/17/2012 6:03:14 AM

will fucking blow your mind
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html

9 Biggest Banks' Derivative Exposure - $228.72 Trillion

[Last image of infographic]

9/17/2012 6:08:50 AM

If our dollar bills were twice as thick the stack would be twice as big!

Woooooooaaaaahhhhhhhh

[Edited on September 17, 2012 at 8:21 AM. Reason : Woah!]

9/17/2012 8:20:37 AM

but the real question is...


How many times would a single stack go to the moon and back?

9/17/2012 8:47:20 AM

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"are they bound by money wraps? i don't see any other way loose bills would be able to be stacked so neatly without some type of wind blowing them askew, even in a vacuum...but its obviously not a vaccum if thats a real person in the corner"

9/17/2012 8:50:15 AM

If we are that much volume in debt, why don't we just print larger denomination bills so that our debt shrinks? Or use smaller sized bills? Seems like a pretty easy solution to me.

9/17/2012 8:59:46 AM

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"Same reason why you see your hand and not atoms of your hand "

INCREDIBLE!

9/17/2012 8:59:52 AM

Why don't we just not pay it?

9/17/2012 9:18:52 AM

^ well that's kind of the plan. The real rub is if we pay interest or not. Still, only a matter of time before inflation fixes the problem for us.

9/17/2012 9:23:29 AM

does the size of the stack dictate if it'll take off from a treadmill?

9/17/2012 9:27:17 AM

I'm starting to think the OP is not, in fact, a genius

9/17/2012 9:51:29 AM

I don't see balloons anywhere. Inflation is bullshït!

9/17/2012 9:53:07 AM

omg this impressive graphic will certainly change all of my political views, the world must see this so they can know too!!

9/17/2012 11:17:09 AM

who still uses cash these days anyway?

9/17/2012 11:21:30 AM

me

9/17/2012 11:26:14 AM

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"See the man in the bottom corner?"

What a sexist comment. It could just as easily be a woman standing next to the money, but noooooo, you want them in the home where they belong. People like GeniuSxBoY make me sick.

9/17/2012 11:27:57 AM

what is this? a stack of money for ants?



[Edited on September 17, 2012 at 11:31 AM. Reason : asdf]

9/17/2012 11:30:49 AM

It's probably not safe for that man to stand there, there doesn't appear to be any strapping or supports so the stacks could fall on him and crush him.

9/17/2012 11:44:44 AM

9/17/2012 11:48:44 AM

Good thing we don't really have to pay it back

9/17/2012 11:57:29 AM

china has a stack of money like that

do you think they will let us borrow it to pay off our debt?

9/17/2012 5:07:39 PM

Quote :

"Good thing we don't really have to pay it back"

Quote :

"Why don't we just not pay it?"

We aren't.

Guess what happens then?

The government still has bills.

If your paycheck comes out of the government's account, then the government needs money.

Since you're not paying for it,

they have to get the money from somewhere,

that money comes in the form of the Fed printing more money

which causes your money to be worth less each and every paycheck

that means there will be no retirement for you because money in the bank will be worthless by the time you retire.

It's complicated, I know.

You practically have to be Jewish to understand the Federal Reserve, Banking, Saving, and Debt.

[Edited on September 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM. Reason : .]

9/17/2012 5:07:59 PM

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"which causes your money to be worth less each and every paycheck that means there will be no retirement for you because money in the bank will be worthless by the time you retire. It's complicated, I know. "

I lived through hyperinflation, so I know exactly what that means. I've seen neighbors cover their walls with paper bills, because it was cheaper than buying wallpaper. I've bought groceries with $1M bills.

That's why the only thing I have in the bank long term is debt. When those dollars devalue, I win. Social Security will be counted in tomorrow's dollars, if I ever get to use it. Take every extra dollar you have and spend it today. Buy property. Start a business (or on the second thought, maybe do not start a business ), go on a vacation, have a kid, do something that will either increase the quality of your life TODAY or provide your tomorrow with some tangible appreciating assets (land), cash income and equity (direct investment into business) or [almost guaranteed] futures (decent kids)

[Edited on September 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM. Reason : No, I am not a pessimist]

9/17/2012 8:42:33 PM