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    2 days ago

    The difference between a billion dollars and a trillion dollars is roughly a trillion dollars…

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      I remember when the National debt in the US was 7 trillion, and people were talking about it at the time about how enormous that number was, and how people couldn’t conceptualize it. Now we have a singular person in our midst who could singlehandedly clear up 14% of that. And our current national debt is like 40 trillion now?