Reaching the moon...

One giant debt for mankind: U.S. national deficit would reach almost to the moon if piled high in $5 bills

President Ronald Reagan once famously said that a stack of $1,000 bills equivalent to the U.S. government's debt would be about 67 miles high.
That was 1981. Since then, the national debt has climbed to $14.3 trillion. In $1,000 bills, it would now be more than 900 miles tall.
In $5 bills, the pile would reach three-quarters of the way to the moon.

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