According to the U.S. National Debt Clock - as of Dec. 17, 2008 the current total debt is
$10,660,053,707,621.56
(
that's $10.6 trillion for the digit-challenged)
The estimated population of the United States is 305,288,095
so each citizen's share of this debt is $34,918.01
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.71 billion per day since September 28, 2007.
How does this qualify the U.S. as "the world's richest country"?
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/