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My students and I licked our pencils today and did some cyphering:
So here is some math for you....shock, I know, coming from an Ag teacher, but follow along.
There are 60 minutes in an hour
24 hours in one day=1440 minutes per day
1440 minutes X 60 seconds per min = 86,400 seconds per day.
365 days per year X 86,400 seconds =31,536,000 seconds per year.
The National Debt is:
$18,405,777,960,000 (It has gone up a few mil while typing this)
If you divide our National debt by the number of seconds in one year, how long do you think it would take to pay back our National Debt if we paid it off at $1 per second?
Here is the answer!
583,643.39 YEARS! Over half a million years paying back at one dollar per second!
Yep, let that sink in a while.
You are welcome!
So here is some math for you....shock, I know, coming from an Ag teacher, but follow along.
There are 60 minutes in an hour
24 hours in one day=1440 minutes per day
1440 minutes X 60 seconds per min = 86,400 seconds per day.
365 days per year X 86,400 seconds =31,536,000 seconds per year.
The National Debt is:
$18,405,777,960,000 (It has gone up a few mil while typing this)
If you divide our National debt by the number of seconds in one year, how long do you think it would take to pay back our National Debt if we paid it off at $1 per second?
Here is the answer!
583,643.39 YEARS! Over half a million years paying back at one dollar per second!
Yep, let that sink in a while.
You are welcome!