Surely this isnt accurate

[Motti]

Yes, it is accurate, and don't call me Shirley.

You sir, win the internet.
but it's only $38,158 per citizen. For some, that's a year's pay. For others that's a mere trifle, it would balance out somehow methinks.

 

[Aardvark]

As long as crude is sold in US dollars, the US won't be paying any of that back. They cover the interest by leveraging their own currency.

Once the Arabs switch to Euros, Pounds or Pieces of Eight, though, the yanks are screwed.

 

[Radeonx]

Yes it's fairly large. But considering that we're just so incredibly awesome, we'll pay it back. In coolness lessons.

This, America is so awesome that just by having a debt that large, other Countries want a huge debt so they can almost be as cool as us.

Radeonx ... fail!!!!

I really love how your response to my sentence is fail. It really just proves my awesome point of awesomeness.

 

[Berethond]

Yes, it is accurate, and don't call me Shirley.

You sir, win the internet.
but it's only $38,158 per citizen. For some, that's a year's pay. For others that's a mere trifle, it would balance out somehow methinks.

You have no idea how long I've waited to use that joke.

 

[Stoic raptor]

Holy Shit!!!!!!!!! Its that bad?!
Damn

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Well, a lot of people in the U.S. have the belief that their credit cards will do magical things for them, as long as they keep using it to pay for things that they can't pay for!

which is quite Ironic because they end up unable to pay for bills from credit cards.

I love laughing at that

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Yes, it is accurate, and don't call me Shirley.

That... that was ace. You sir, are made of win.

 

[Nimbus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

Take a look at debt per capita.

Not that high.

 

[Vim-Hogar]

Roughly how much this the US fork out in Marshall aid back in the day, does anybody know?

I don't, but Wikipedia does. $13 billion over the course of 4 years.

is that adjusted for inflation?

It doesn't say it is, so I'd assume it's not.

 

[Snowalker]

Dude.. the U.S. has been owing money since day one, thats lower than I thought it was.

 

[Fritzvalt]

Need a good ol fashioned Cold War. That'll put us back in the money in no time.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Well it is a big fucking country where people make alot of fucking money. Debt is sure to be high

 

[clicketycrack]

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[megapenguinx]

Haven't all countries been in major debt since after WW2? My history is a bit rusty but isn't that about the era in which the usage of credit became more mainstream?

 

[historybuff]

Yes it's fairly large. But considering that we're just so incredibly awesome, we'll pay it back. In coolness lessons.

*high-five*


Actually, that debt is all thanks to one George W. Bush. See, before him, we had Clinton who actually balanced our budget. We weren't in debt. The government was taking in more money than it was spending. Then Bush came and decided to throw up on it.

So now the new administration is attempting to muddle out a way to fix it.

 

[Simalacrum]

meh, Britain has about that much dept, and we don't have as much of a country to pay it back. We're screwed, really.

 

[A random person]

Spoiler: At this rate there's no way we could pay it back. We need to have it forgiven somehow, like this:

Our best option, is it not?

 

[Rathy]

The US debt has been in trillions for years. Bush has just helped speed it along to where it is now. Though the debt amount is still kinda average for a full country.

 

[sune-ku]

Well apparently the world is in $54,610,000,000,000 of debt, so I'm wondering when Mars is going to come and collect it.

 

[Akira Pilot]

Yes it's fairly large. But considering that we're just so incredibly awesome, we'll pay it back. In coolness lessons.

This, America is so awesome that just by having a debt that large, other Countries want a huge debt so they can almost be as cool as us.

Radeonx ... fail!!!!

I really love how your response to my sentence is fail. It really just proves my awesome point of awesomeness.

Awesome point of awesomeness is code for a bunch of epic phail. Seriously, I hope that you are joking. You think that the world wants to end up like the United States, owing so much money that is could possibly pay for another planet for us to live on? (Hypothetically speaking of course.)