[LucianOfSamasota]

What’s 5% of $17,000,000,000,000?

Don’t need a PhD in economics to know this is a problem...

[kabar]

And the debt will continue to increase by $600 billion or more per year, especially since we just suspended sequestration for two years with the Ryan-Murray deal.

[Starboard]

$17 trillion grossly understates the real amount of debt (by over $100 trillion) when the unfunded liabilities are included. See bottom line in link:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

[Night Hides Not]

What’s 5% of $17,000,000,000,000?

About $150 billion less than $20,000,000,000,000, which is where we'll be in Jan 2017.

BTW, 5% of $20T is:

[1010RD]

It’s actually $240,000,000,000,000.00 net of taxes.

Search on Lawrence Kotlikoff.