Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Scientific Notation and the National Debt Date:   4/9/2011 8:12:29 AM

3.8 x 10^10 divided by 1.4 X 10^12  equals  2.714 percent  NOT EVEN A DENT. 

$38,000,000,000 / $1,400,000,000,000 = 0.0214

By the way, most calculators will not let you put a number like 1,400,000,000,000 in them.  So you have to use the scientific notation as I did in the first line. (Hound, do you know how to work in scientific notation? I’m sure Fishy doesn’t.  I’m sure Pelosi doesn’t.)

2.7%... Congress has “saved” less than the interest on our debt this year.  This is how people get into trouble with their credit cards.  But, our Congress and President don’t seem to see it that way.