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

Lesson # 1: per year

  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 so far: $3xx.xx8xx5xx

Got It ?????


OK now Lesson # 2: Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:

Let's say, You come home from work and find there has been a sewer
backup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the way up
to your ceilings.

What do you think you should do ......

Raise the ceilings, or pump out the crap?

Your choice is coming Nov. 2012.

According to the American networks (even Fox News) the Man From Kenya is
not going to
relinquish the second term easily. I was really surprised by the fact that
he was
leading The Banker by so many points in the polls. I realise it`s early
days yet, but
where is the walk-over everyone was expecting?

Erik in Oz.

It is now  just changing. Wait till millions see 2016.

Paul Lamar


I think the polls are an attempt to mislead the populous. I try to talk to
people about the president, and what I have found is many people that admit
to voting for Obama last time that will definitely not this time no matter
who the other candidate is. As we drive up and down the Keys, I saw one
sign for Obama at the NE end of the Keys, and on my trips all the way to
the other end I have not seen one Obama sign in a yard. I finally saw an
Obama bumper sticker on a car the other day, and the tags indicate it is
from a county up toward the panhandle not from here. Given the number of
tourists that come here, I would have expected to have seen more bumper
stickers if it was going to be a landslide like they say.

I see no evidence that the vast majority of the country is planning to make
that mistake again.

Kevin Alderman


The media has thrown it's hat in the ring for Obama, they are fully invested in his
winning a second term. I've seen very few Obama bumper stickers of late.
Brian Trubee


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