What can you buy with $14.3 Trillion  

As President Obama has struck a deal with Congress to increase the USA's $14.3 trillion debt by another $2T, it's worth finding out just how much $14.3 Trillion dollars is. It might just have been worth defaulting on! $14.3 Trillion is such an enormous you can't fit the number of 0s (12) on a standard calculator!

Anyway, here's what you get for $14.3 Trillion or $14,300,000,000,000. You could:

	Plant 953 Billion trees or roughly the Amazon rain forest twice (450 Billion trees in Amazon)
	Give a $1000 new laptop and a $1000 dollar flat screen television to everyone on the planet. (and if you need them installing call us - we install televisions and satelllite systems
	Hire a gardener to landscape 54 Million Square miles at an average cost of $164 per square meter or turn all the land in the USA into a golf course 14 times.
	Buy 26 Million brand new, fully loaded Rolls Royce Phantoms at around $550,000 each.
	Build 286,000 miles of track for a high speed maglev train at $50M per mile or roughly 11 times around the world.
	Buy 88,271 super yachts like Paul Allen's Tatoosh at $162M each.
	Buy 47,667 brand new Boeing 747s at $300M each (They've only ever built 1200 or so).
	Build 34,750 new super hospitals at $400M each.
	Build 20,429 Skyscrapers (1st class one's like the Shard in London) at $700M each.
	Build 11,000 gas boiler power stations at £1.3B each.
	Build 1,223 solid gold Statues of Liberty (at todays Gold prices $48.3M per tonnes) or roughly twice the amount of gold that has EVER been mined ($7.5 trillion worth has ever mined).
	Make 143 manned trips to Mars (based on Nasa projections of $100B per trip) or buy 143 International Space Stations at the same price.
	Buy 43 countries the economic size of Greece - another big spender...

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