NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft is a long way from home.

It has now reached “interstellar” space, 11 Billion miles from earth.  That is a VERY long distance.

I am not good at public math (or private math, for that matter), but some quick calculations produced some interesting information when I compared this distance to our National Debt.

Like Voyager 2, our National Debt is traveling ever-farther into the unknown.  At nearly 22 TRILLION Dollars, and quietly growing larger by the second, it is nearly beyond comprehension.  To help grasp just how “far out” the National Debt is, if each dollar were one mile, the debt would be roughly 1,100 BILLION miles into outer space. Math experts, please forgive my fuzzy math, but you get my point.

Some systems on Voyager 2 have had to be shut down, because of power requirements and concerns that the space craft is pushing the limits of its life expectancy.  There may be some parallels between the Voyager 2 and the National Debt.  America’s financial system isn’t really designed to bear this kind of burden.

We know very little about this universe, and universes beyond.  The Voyager 2 has gone where no man has ever gone.  The National Debt is also in uncharted territory.

I wonder which will implode or explode first…

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