No matter how many times you see it visualised, it is staggering.

Apparently, for every dollar the US raises in tax, it spends more than another 50 cents- that it borrows.

revenues: $2.092 trillion
expenditures: $3.397 trillion (2010 est.) cia world factbook (2010) this is getting worse in 2011 - hence the current crisis.



Of the $2 trillion they raise in taxes, over 1/3 of that is spent of their military ALONE (approx $800 billion).

The numbers are SO big, they just seems unreal.