Our national debt matters; do the math

If you made one dollar per second, how much would you make in a day? You’d make $86,400! At that rate, how long would it take to become a millionaire? Eleven-and-a-half days. Guess how long it would take to become a billionaire? It would take 11,574 days, or 31.7 years. That’s the difference between a billion and a million: 11.5 days to become a millionaire, 31.7 years to become a billionaire.

So, how long would it take to become a trillionaire? Let’s skip the days and go straight to years. It would take 31,709 years. You read that right, thirty-one thousand, seven hundred nine years. Our national debt matters; do the math.

KIRSTEN LeBLANC

Sandpoint