National Budget put best

From an email I received:

This rather brilliantly cuts thru all the political doublespeak we get. It puts it into a much better perspective.

Lesson # 1:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts: $385

Let me point out that the “National debt” is really 4+ times the number above when you include the current value of social security and medicare benefits.

My thoughts: How many years have we let this go on? Unbelievable…

I saw the SchoolHouse Rock when I was kid… remember it? Here I found it on youtube and am embedding it here:

Started way back and got out of hand after the civil war… and never got back under control. Scary. 100 years and we still elect people that can’t control the spending of the government. Mine Mine Mine… I swear that is all I hear when I listen to the speeches about why ‘that official’ must have money… I have yet to hear, “We need to cut what we spend in our state”. Not happening huh? Any ideas on what should be done?