I read about how federal cuts are impacting lives.
From cutting ineligible people from Medicaid, to cuts to USAID, people’s lives will never be the same.
But do we really want the same? Can we afford the status quo? How much is our debt?
It’s $37 trillion, that’s how much, but what is a trillion in terms I can understand?
Go up to a football field and imagine the shop class built a bin on it. The bin is 300 feet by 160 feet, the size of the playing area.
Now imagine the bin being about 8 feet, 4 inches tall. Fill it tightly with hundred-dollar bills. That is a trillion dollars.
Our debt is $37 trillion, so we have to imagine that bin being 307 feet tall and stacked clear full of hundred-dollar bills.
Now imagine someone gives you one of those packets of bills.
One hundred of those hundred-dollar bills is $10,000. That would make your day, right?
Now imagine our debtors coming to your door and demanding 10 of those bundles for each person in your home.
Our debt is a problem.
Don’t whine to me about cuts to programs. Tell me about how you are willing to help solve our national debt.
I hope every time you see a football field from now on, you imagine a 30-story building full of hundred-dollar bills there.
Mark A. White
Port Angeles