{"id":2822,"date":"2010-11-02T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2010-11-02T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:23:43","slug":"how-much-debt-is-the-united-states-in-if-you-spend-100-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2822","title":{"rendered":"How much debt is the United States in? If you spend $100 a second&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/search?q=how+many+seconds+in+a+year\">1 year = 31,556,926 seconds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you spent $100 A SECOND, your total would be around $3.2 billion a year ($3,155,692,600).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That&#8217;s 20 Wendy&#8217;s or Whataburger $5 combo meals a second.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s a new Xbox or PS3 every 3 seconds.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/08\/19\/car-auto-insurance-lifestyle-vehicles-most-least-expensive.html\">That&#8217;s a new Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG ($201,150) every 33 and a half minutes. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Gulfstream_G650\">That&#8217;s a new Gulfstream G650 private jet ($58,500,000) every week (9,750 minutes). <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldinterestingfacts.com\/wealthy\/top-5-most-expensive-private-yachts-in-the-world.html\">That&#8217;s a new &#8220;Octopus&#8221; yacht ($200,000,000) every 23 days (33,333 minutes).<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brillig.com\/debt_clock\/\"><br \/>\nThe national debt is currently over $13 trillion ($13,000,000,000,000)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Divide $13,000,000,000,000 by the $100 a second annual total of $3,155,692,600?<\/p>\n<p>You would have to spend $100 a second for <strong>over four thousand YEARS<\/strong> (4,119.54) to pay off our current national debt.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 year = 31,556,926 seconds If you spent $100 A SECOND, your total would be around $3.2 billion a year ($3,155,692,600). That&#8217;s 20 Wendy&#8217;s or Whataburger $5 combo meals a second. That&#8217;s a new Xbox or PS3 every 3 seconds. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-price-check","category-rant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-Jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}