Tuesday, March 18, 2008

GASP!

Just for your fun little records:

As of JANUARY 2008

United States of America is indebted to:
Japan $586.9BILLION
China $492.6BILLION
United Kingdom $160BILLION
Brazil $141.7BILLION
OIL EXPORTERS $140.9BILLION
Caribbean Banking Centers $108.1BILLION
Luxembourg $68.4BILLION
Hong Kong $54.5BILLION
Germany $42.9BILLION
Korea $42.1BILLION
Switzerland $39.3BILLION
Taiwan $38.9BILLION
Singapore $38.4BILLION
Mexico $35.5BILLION
Russia $35.2BILLION
Norway $33.6BILLION
Thailand $28.9BILLION
Turkey $28.2BILLION
Canada $23.6BILLION
Netherlands $15.9BILLION
Ireland $15.4BILLION
India $14.6BILLION
Sweden $13.4BILLION
Belgium $13.1BILLION
Italy $12.7BILLION
Egypt $11.7BILLION
Philippines $10.3BILLION
Poland $10.3BILLION
OTHER DEBTS $145.2BILLION


TOTAL DEBT AS OF JANUARY 2008: $2402.5BILLION

My brain is so angry at how complicated it is to try to comprehend a solution for the giant mess our species has sunk itself into.

Greed cannot succeed in anything but producing more greed.
Grrr...

The link to this info was found on Gov. Capuano's site in the right hand column.

1 comment:

meme contributor said...

sweet, the dollar is just going to decrease in value even more as time goes by as well. that coupled with our huge deficit means we are in trouble as a nation.

i'm moving to iceland, see you later.