You have to watch this.
It puts it all into perspective...
http://youtu.be/jboTeS9Okak
Ben Bernanke is far from alone in warning about the danger of our exploding national debt.
For example, world famous motivational speaker Tony Robbins is also warning that the national debt crisis could destroy our future.
These days, most people throw around the phrase “a trillion dollars” without ever really grasping what it means.
In the video posted above, Tony Robbins uses a fun illustration to help put in perspective how large a “trillion dollars” really is.
If you had a million seconds to do something, would you consider that to be a long time?
Well, it turns out that a million seconds is only about 12 days.
What about a billion seconds? Is that a long period of time?
Well, yes, a billion seconds is close to 32 years. So that is definitely a lot longer than a million seconds.
What about a trillion seconds?
How long do you think that is?
Well, a trillion seconds is about 31,688 years.
So when we talk about how the U.S. government is stealing more than a trillion dollars from future generations every single year, we are talking about an absolutely massive amount of money.
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