"Jim" wrote in message
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Current Financial Report of the United States 2002
http://www.fms.treas.gov/fr/

Summary

America's liabilities minus assets = US$ 31 trillion


My calculator doesn't have enough "0"s to divide by 280 million population


The number of people alive in the US today is irrelevant. What makes you
think that the current debt has to be paid off within the lifespan of the
youngest person alive today? The nation's debt never comes "due". It's
amortized out into infinity.