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Obama budget – more spending than anyone can comprehend

With his debt-busting budget which contains a $trillion tax increase, President Obama plans to have the Federal government spend 25 percent of the entire U.S. economy – one out of every four dollars produced in the U.S.

Obama’s massive spending plan puts the Democrat-controlled Congress on track to double the national debt by 2010 – to $17.6 trillion, after just four years of controlling the national purse strings.

At FoxNews they tried to put $3.6 trillion in perspective:

  • If you spent $1 million an hour, non-stop for 24 hours a day, you wouldn’t run out of money for 411 years.
  • If you took 3.6 trillion one-dollar bills, and placed them end-to-end, that line of bills would reach from Capitol Hill to the sun and then back to Capitol Hill and then back to the sun — and then almost all the way back to Capitol Hill again.

The uncontrolled spending binge Obama and the Democrats are on — the $800 billion so-called stimulus, the $410 billion spending bill under consideration in Congress, the tax and borrow Obama budget spending plan, and a doubled national debt — is an incomprehensible amount of money.

Think of a trillion in terms of seconds. We all know how long a second is. A million seconds is 13 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years. Think of the ongoing spending orgy in terms of seconds and perhaps we can grasp what Obama and Democrats are spending and borrowing:

A trillion here, a trillion there; sooner or later you run out of time.

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COMMENTS

  • johnt

    for an abysmally ignorant electorate. This marxist punk should have been laughed off the public stage but the media packaged him, covered his warts, and made something out of nothing.
    Then we have our friends in the reality based community, the ones who really know politics. I wonder if any of them are starting to feel uneasy, or guilty.

    In any case government under Obama and the other socialists will do long term the one thing they are with certainty capable of, create misery.

  • RedNeckState

    I completely agree that spending is out of control. But I’ve been saying this for the past 8 years! The Iraq War alone has cost over $600 billion and the cost is still climbing.

    Did it actually take putting a Democrat in the White House to get Republicans to wake the heck up?

    Do people really care about fiscal responsibility in this country? Or is it that they just look for whatever issue they can to beat up the other party?

    I am so happy that people are finally questioning the outrageous spending of public money going on. But so many people are coming off as hypocrites. I just hope everyone remembers these fiscal principles that they are now touting when the Republicans come back into power.