$14 trillion is a lot of money.  It's a little difficult to comprehend, unless you’ve studied economics or have seen really fancy infographics. 

If the debt is of mythical proportions, it stands to reason that the best way to fight it is with money earning potential of mythical proportions: internet work-at-home scams.

Scott Johnson recently tweeted (joking, of course) about a particularly shady work-at-home scam – a review from a “consumer review” site.  Shady within shady – kind of like being two levels deep in Inception.

Susan, the woman in the “review” (there really should be HTML tags for sarcasm), claimed to be making $6,000 - $7,000 dollars per month working only 10-13 hours per week.  That’s massive earning potential.  How soon we could pay of the national debt if every resident of the United States participated?

Before you say we can’t include infants, let me point out this scam is for online trading, at which we all know babies are quite adept.

Here’s how it would work.

If Susan makes $6,000 - $7,000 per month working 10 - 13 hours per week, that works out to $141.30 per hour.  At that rate the 311 million residents of the United States have a combined earning potential of about $44 billion per hour ($43,945,652,173.91 to be exact).  If we all worked one hour a week, assuming we cut into our Facebook and Lolcats time, as opposed to work, we could earn around $2.3 trillion per year.

It would still take us 6 years to pay off the debt.

$14 trillion is a lot of money.