This document compares the size of the United States national debt to physical objects and structures to help conceptualize the immense scale. It notes that the national debt of $14.4 trillion at the time would stack dollar bills to the height of the Empire State Building and produce a wall of money over a mile long and 75 feet wide. The total US debt of $54.9 trillion would circle the earth over 3,700 times and total unfunded liabilities of $114.6 trillion would go around the earth over 7,700 miles.

1. How does the United States Debt Stack up? The Measure of Our Money

2. Our Dollar The United States One Dollar Bill 6.14 Inches Long 2.61 Inches Wide 0.0043 Inches Thick A 1” Stack = $233 A 1’ Stack = $2,796

3. Dollar Vs. Man 6’ Tall Man = $16,776 He Pingping = $5,126 (World’s Shortest Man at 22” Tall) Sultan Kosen = $22,601 (World’s Tallest Man at 8’1” Tall) $22601 $5126

4. World’s Tallest Animal George the Giraffe 19.2’ = $53,668 Tall Giraffe’s Tongue 20” = $4,660 Long

5. Money Amount $1 = 0.0043” $100 = .43” $1,000 = 4.3” $10,000 = 3’7” $100,000 = 35.8’ (3 story House) $1,000,000 = 358’ (25 Story Building) $1,000,000 Tall $100,000 Tall

6. Eiffel Tower 902’ = $2,591,992 Tall

7. Empire State Building = 1,454’ = $4,065,384 Tall Burj Khalifa (World’s Tallest Building) = 2,717’ = $7,596,732 Tall Tall Buildings

8. More Tall Things 1 Mile = $14,762,880 Grand Teton (WY) 13,771’ = $38,503,716 Planes Fly at $83,880,000 or 30,000’ 1,000,000,000 (Billion) is 67.7 Miles High $83,880,000 Altitude Grand Teton = $38,503,716

9. The International Space Station The Space Station Flies Between $2,553,978,240 & $4,222,183,680 (173 to 286 Miles above the Earth) We are still not even close to our National Debt. We haven’t even reached Bill Gates.

10. The Earth Once around the Earth = $367,205,612,999 (24,859.82 Miles @ Equator) $1,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) Will go Around the Earth 2.7 Times (67,737.5 Miles)

11. Earth to the Moon It take’s $3,526,215,168,850 To Reach the Moon or what the Government Spends every 3 months

12. The National Debt $14,491,066,000,000 @ July 11th 2011 6:30 p.m. M.D.T. Will make it to the Moon 4.1 Times Circle the Earth 39.5 Times And produce 3,564,501Stacks of One Dollar Bills the height of the Empire State Building and result in a wall of Money 75’ Wide X One Mile Long X 1,454’ High.

13. United States Total Debt $54,938,226,000,000 15.6 Stacks to the Moon 3,721,376 Miles Long 149.7 Times around the Earth 75’ Wide X 3.8 Miles Long X Empire State Building High

14. United States Total Unfunded Liabilities $114,623,975,000,000 32.5 Times to the Moon 7,764,337 Miles 312.3 Times Around the Earth 75’ Wide X 7.9 Miles Long X Empire State Building High. I would rather ride a Rocket to the Moon