Calculating the Debt
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I noticed our national debt at the end of Feb was 19 trillion,211 billion,342 million,727 thousand,725 dollars. That is a very large number for anyone to even have a vague idea how large it really is. In this poem we're just going to talk about counting that high. Just to give you some idea of just how much it really is.
Not that it really matters
The damage has already been done
While the debt of our country grows fatter
Let's crunch some numbers just for fun
For the average human being
Counting to one hundred is easy
Thirty seconds is all that is fleeing
To one thousand, five minutes goes breezing
From one to ten thousand, one hour
One hundred thousand will take one work day
The numbers are starting to tower
Cause one million takes ten working days
To count from one to ten million
Takes one half of one year
To get to one hundred million
It takes about five years
Counting from one to one billion
takes one whole working lifetime
If your thinking of going to one trillion
Multiply that one thousand times
by Daniel Turner
Isn't math fun?
Copyright © Daniel Turner | Year Posted 2016
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