How do Each of Us Fit Into The National Debt?

    I know this is a horrible picture of my visual aid, but I had to use a scanner so there it is. Hopefully it won't detract from the point. Basically, this is how I summed it up. We were supposed to make a graph of sorts, one that showed data from our research paper without following traditional forms, with words being frowned upon. I brainstormed for a bit, and this is what I came up with.

    The picture you see is of 23,000 dollars. This number is important for well, a number of reasons. The first of which is this is the average income of every American citizen for one year. While I realize that it doesn't really represent us college kids, you get the picture (no pun intended). This is also .000000003% of the national debt (which was, as of, 2/17/05, $7,659,127,956,525). This means that it would take 333,005,563 Americans an entire year to pay off the national debt. Now I know that doesn't sound that bad, but wait! There are only 295,487,785 Americans according to the latest estimates. That means that even if every single American gave his entire average wage to the government for one year we would still be in debt. I know I don't want to pay the government everything I make for a year, and I'm betting you don't either. The question is, when will we get to the point where it would be impossible to pay it off, no matter how much we gave?