The following are 5 Scary Facts About USA Debts ;
1 - As of December 1st, 2009, the official debt of the united States government was approximately 12.1 trillion dollars.
2 - The USA national debt on January 1st, 1971 was just 75 million dollars. Today, the USA national debt rises by that amount about once an hour.
3 - The USA government now borrows approximately 5 billion dollar every business day.
4 - The USA government's debt ceiling has been raised six times since the beginning of 2006.
5 - A trillion of USD10 bills, if they were taped end to end, would wrap around the globe more than 380 times. That amount of money would still not be enough to pay off the USA national debt.
