Portman: $18.5 Trillion Debt by the Numbers

Exactly How Enormous is Washington's National Debt?

18.53 Trillion In $1 Bills

• Would cover the entire State of Ohio 1.65 times 
• Would stack to the moon 5 times
• Would fill the Horseshoe at Ohio State nearly 9 times over 
• Would fill the Sears Tower 14 times over 
• Would cover every square inch of highways, road, parking lots, and pavement in the U.S.

Other Comparisons

• $57,000 per person 
• $150,000 per household 
• 32 times as large as the GDP of Ohio 
• Greater than the size of our country's entire economy
• Nearly value of the entire U.S. stock market

Enough to buy both the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds 10,838 times