Brother, can you spare $9 trillion?

The national debt is now $9 trillion.

$9 trillion:

- Is roughly four times Britain’s GDP

- Equates to $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the U.S.

- Equates to $1,500 for every man, woman and child in the world

- Would buy all the tea in China. In fact it would buy all the tea in the world for the next 2,000 years.

- Is enough to solve the Palestinian crisis by rehousing every Israeli and Palestinian family in a £1.5m detached house in Henley-on-Thames

-Would build 28 Eiffel Towers — constructed out of gold.

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