Do you want to see which senators voted to increase our national debt limit to $14.3 Trillion today?
Actually, before we get to that, lets take a quick look at what a trillion is—because if you’re like me, you don’t get to play with trillions of anything over the course of your day.
So what is a trillion?
- “If you start spending a million dollars every single day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spend a trillion dollars.”
- Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
- One trillion seconds ago, Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe.
- One trillion square miles is about 20 Earths worth of land.
- Approximately one trillion gallons of water fall over Niagara Falls in a little over three weeks.
Yeah. It’s a lot.
Now multiply that by 14.3.
Are you disgusted at the amount of money our federal government spends every year? You should be.
Here’s the URL to the roll call vote on H.J.RES.45 (Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.). It should be updated within the hour with the list of votes.
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