How Many Elon Musks Does it Take to...

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Consider this staggering number for a moment if you will. $7 trillion. Yes, that's with a T. That's how much money the government typically spends in a year. $7 trillion. $5 trillion of that is collected in tax revenues. The other $2 trillion is added to the national debt which now stands at $37 trillion. Let's just consider the $7 trillion first. Elon Musk is currently sitting on a net worth of $384 billion. In order to get to $7 trillion, you would need 19,000 Elon Musks on the planet. You read that right, nineteen THOUSAND Elon Musks. Now, let's take a look at that $37 trillion, which we also pay interest on, by the way. How many Elon Musks would it take to pay that off? 96,354. Perhaps where we go wrong is that we use a word like trillion, which doesn't quite have the same impact as if we were to say that $37 trillion is $37,000 billion. It makes it quite a bit even more remarkable when you consider that the total value of the entire Forbes 400 billionaires list is only $5.4 trillion. You would need to duplicate the number of billionaires on that list 7 times to 2,800 to generate $37 trillion. Even if you confiscated the whole $5.4 trillion, consider it took decades for many of these billionaires to make this money. It would take decades for them to earn it back. Asking our government where the money is going or asking them to pull back the reins is simple common sense. It's simply not sustainable to incur this much debt year in and year out. Staying the course on this path, eventually the United States would invariably default on its debts, the dollar would collapse, and our country would fall.