{"id":670,"date":"2014-08-26T06:55:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T06:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=670"},"modified":"2014-08-26T06:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T06:55:48","slug":"the-us-national-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"The US National Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good place to see the size of the US National Debt is the famous US Debt clock that is located on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"US National Debt Clock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>How large is the US National Debt ?<\/p>\n<p>It is $17,682 Billion = $17 Trillion = \u00a310.25 Trillion.<\/p>\n<p>This is literally a sum of all the outstanding US Treasury Bonds outstanding, issued by the US Federal Government. This number is now over 100% of the US Annual GDP.<\/p>\n<p>Another way of looking at it, is to divide it across the US population.<br \/>\n<strong>319 million<\/strong> is the <strong>US population.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$17,682 Billion = $17,682,000 million.<\/p>\n<p>Thus:<\/p>\n<p><strong>$17,682,000 million<\/strong> \/ <strong>319 million<\/strong> = <strong>$55,000 dollars per person in the US<\/strong>.<br \/>\n[=\u00a333,000 per person in the US]<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the US national debt is colossal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good place to see the size of the US National Debt is the famous US Debt clock that is located on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. [http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/] How large is the US National Debt ? It is $17,682 Billion = $17 Trillion = \u00a310.25 Trillion. This is literally a sum of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}