Debt Increased $203 Billion in Oct.–$650 for Every Man, Woman and Child in America
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The federal government’s debt increased by $203,368,715,583.63 in the month of October, according to the U.S. Treasury.
That equals about $650 per person for each of the 312,542,760 people the Census Bureau now estimates live in the United States.
At the end of September, the total national debt stood at $14,790,340,328,557.15, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt. By the end of October, it had risen to $14,993,709,044,140.78.
Thanks for putting those numbers out in full glory with commas and decimals. Most Americans can’t tell the difference between Millions, Billions and Trillions and only look at the leading digits, which aren’t the story. The story is in all those zeroes behind the leading digits.
Did you know, there are only 100,000,000,000 stars in the galaxy? The national debt is now $148 for EVERY STAR IN THE SKY! “Those used to be called ‘astronomical’ numbers, but now they should be called ‘economical’ numbers.” — Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman.