US Debt Visualized: What would you could do with $50,000

Published April 29, 2012 11:26pm ET



For the third year in a row, Congress (the Democrat led Senate, specifically) has failed to pass a budget, continuing the federal government’s ability to recklessly spend my generation and future generations of Americans’ hard earned money.

A break down of the national debt shows that every American is currently on the hook for approximately $50,056 of government spending in addition to the extraordinary amount of tax money they already pay the federal government.

Below, I put together a chart of items that could be purchased with the money every Americans will eventually have to cough up to the federal government.