The table below represents the US federal budget spending in 2011. The leftmost figures represent the total amount in each row, and the rightmost represent the amount borrowed of the total, in all cases this amounts to 43% of the total. So effectively, for every dollar the US government spends, it borrows 43 cents of that dollar.
| US Budget 2011 | US Budget ($) | Amount Borrowed ($) |
| Per Second | 121,067 | 52,162 |
| Per Minute | 7,264,020 | 3,129,756 |
| Per Hour | 435,841,200 | 187,785,388 |
| Per Day | 10,460,188,800 | 4,506,849,315 |
| Per Week | 73,221,917,808 | 31,547,945,205 |
| Per Month | 318,166,660,000 | 137,083,333,333 |
| Per Year | 3,818,000,000,000 | 1,645,000,000,000 |
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