Speak Out: I owe my soul to the company store. This is shocking.

Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Apr 15, 2011, at 10:07 PM:

The debt is 16 million tons 800,000 truck loads in one dollar bills or 72 times the weight of the sears tower. There is a lot more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpeIV9X-smg&feature=player_embedded

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  • Neat way of expressing it, Worth the watch just to hear it. One of my favorites! I'm amazed at the sound quality from this cheap laptop.

    -- Posted by Old John on Fri, Apr 15, 2011, at 11:51 PM
  • Great find, regret. And a novel way to illustrate a number which is so big as to be unfathomable. I posted it to my facebook account to see if anyone else would be interested enough to take a look. I find that most people are willing to just muddle along and cannot be bothered with educating themselves concerning economic reality.

    After watching this video, I went to iowahawk and found this gem:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=668pi6k_8WQ&feature=player_embedded#at+47

    If people can not wrap their minds around numbers, perhaps illustrations will help them understand the enormity of the problem we face!

    -- Posted by Robert* on Sat, Apr 16, 2011, at 8:00 AM
  • Sorry about that broken link.

    http://www.iowahawk.typepad.com/

    Scroll down the pad to 'Eat the Rich'

    It gives a fantastic example of what the annual budget really costs! Sometimes illustrations make the difficult to understand almost clear!

    -- Posted by Robert* on Sat, Apr 16, 2011, at 12:27 PM
  • stnmsn8

    This will make it easier. I had to pick up my jaw off the table after watching that one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=661pi6K-8WQ#at=83

    -- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sat, Apr 16, 2011, at 12:40 PM
  • Thank you, regret. Sometimes I am technologically challenged!

    -- Posted by Robert* on Sat, Apr 16, 2011, at 3:57 PM
  • No problem. I need it a lot also.

    The bad thing is many think this is just against Obama and want too defend it. As this stuff is coming in I hope everyone takes the hint that any politician that says they cant make cuts have to go. 16 million tons of $1 bills.

    -- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sat, Apr 16, 2011, at 6:56 PM

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