Today in AP US History we were discussing the post war $250 billion debts and of course today’s debt and the US debt clock came up. You’ve probably heard of comparisons to bring debt into perspective so here’s my go at it.
A treasury issue USD bill is 6.14 inches × 2.61 inches × 0.0043 inches for a volume of 0.06890922 cubic inches. So now at about 9:30 AM Thursday, February 24th 2011, the debt clock puts us at $14,179,879,136,000 in the red. So if we were to translate all of this into 100 dollar bills, that’s 141798791360 bills each 0.06890922 cubic inches in volume. That puts us at a grand total of 9771244109.5603392 cubic inches or about 67855861.87 cubic feet. Now lets compare that to a Boeing 747-400… yup that massive jetliner with a small second story (Not the A380). A 747-400 has an interior cabin space of 31,285 cubic feet which means that the US debt could fill up 2169 of these planes!
So there you got, just another comparison to solidify our $14+ trillion debt.
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