"It's odd that the OP fails on basic math. If you took ALL of the money from the top 10% wealthiest people and put it towards the debt it would barley make a de

"It's odd that the OP fails on basic math. If you took ALL of the money from the top 10% wealthiest people and put it towards the debt it would barley make a dent." The top 1% in the US has around $12 trillion in wealth, which is about the public part of the debt ($16 trillion total). http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/12pwwinbulwealth07.pdf http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/12pwwinbulwealth07.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt