Government Math鈥OR KIDS!?

Luke: She鈥檚 rich.



Han Solo: [interested] Rich?



Luke: Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be鈥?br>


Han Solo: What?



Luke: Well, more wealth than you can imagine!



Han Solo: I don鈥檛 know, I can imagine quite a bit.



from Star Wars-Episode IV-A New Hope



Hello, boys and girls!



Did you know that you and I can create millions, billions and even trillions of numbers just as easily as the Federal Reserve? All you have to do is use your imagination. Let鈥檚 try it!

I鈥檒l use the number proposed by Obama for his 2011 Federal Budget. Its numerical value looks something like this: 3,800,000,000,000 Translated into words, that number is pronounced as three trillion eight hundred billion. That鈥檚 a big number, huh? It only took me three seconds to produce that number. Let鈥檚 put a dollar sign in front of that: $3,800,000,000,000 Now, let鈥檚 take that number and put it in the deposit column of our checkbook ledger and add that in to what we have on account. For me, that figure would add up to be: $3,800,000,000,127.14

I鈥檓 RICH!

Let鈥檚 do the same for the Federal government. Let鈥檚 take that $3,800,000,000,000 that Obama wants for his 2011 Federal budget and put it into the deposit column of what the Federal government has on account. Wait a minute! The Federal government has no money on account. As a matter of fact, they are this many dollars in the hole: $13,053,274,954,598

O.K., so if the Federal Reserve gives the Federal government $3,800,000,000,000, does that bring the number down to: $9,253,274,954,600? Well, it would be if the Federal Reserve actually gave that money to the Federal government. Unfortunately, that money is only a loan. So, if we add what the Federal government already owes to the Federal Reserve to what it wants to borrow in the future, that number would be: -$16,853,274,954,600

Did you catch that minus (-) figure I inserted before the dollar sign, children? That ((MINUS!!!)) represents what you and your children and your children鈥檚 children and their children will be expected to pay back to the Federal Reserve the minute they鈥檙e born. Now, if you鈥檇 like to spare your children all that grief and pay off your share of that debt right now, all you need to do is cough up $42,265.41. But that doesn鈥檛 quite get you off the hook because starting next year, you鈥檒l have to come up with about $1500.00 per month to pay for your share of the 2011 Federal budget.

Let鈥檚 pretend that this milk cow represents YOU and that this CHAINSAW represents the Federal Reserve. Now, let鈥檚 pull this cord and get this baby warmed up! Hear that? That鈥檚 the sound of TYRANNY! Smell that gasoline? That鈥檚 the armpit of the policeman who鈥檚 got you in a chokehold for exercising your 1st amendment right to complain about it! See those teeth? That鈥檚 just a reminder that they can slice you into T-bone steaks any day you decide to stop producing milk.

Oh, now, stop crying! At least you get something in return for all that money, right? Well, if your name happens to be Israel then that may be true鈥攖hey get about a million dollars per day. If your name isn鈥檛 Israel, then all you get are a bunch of wars to die in, ugly buildings you aren鈥檛 allowed to enter and a whole lot of alphabet soup agencies that take away things you aren鈥檛 willing to give up voluntarily. Here鈥檚 some examples: The NSA takes away your privacy, the ATF takes away your guns, the IRS takes away your money and the TSA takes away your dignity. Any questions?

Let鈥檚 break that Federal budget down and I鈥檒l show you what I mean. Wow, looks like I was right! The biggest chunk of that bill is for war and alphabet soup鈥擨 mean鈥攏ational security. $721.3 billion goes to the Department of Defense, $2.7 billion is for FBI counter-terrorism, $54.2 billion is for International Affairs, $20.9 is for defense related projects with the Energy Department, Veteran鈥檚 affairs gets $66 billion, Homeland Security gets another $54.7 billion, $8.5 billion pays for NASA satellites, $58.4 billion for Veteran鈥檚 pensions (a good thing), $7.5 billion for miscellaneous expenses and $228.1 billion goes towards interest on the debt incurred in past wars. That brings us to a grand total of 1.223 trillion dollars or roughly 1/3 of the entire Federal budget. Get a pad and paper ready, kids, cause I have a lot more figures to throw your way. Ready? 33,000,000,000 are the number of dollars the GOP doesn鈥檛 want to spend on an unemployment extension. The GOP wants the unemployment to rise so they can use that number to embarrass the Democrats seeking reelection this November. 58,900,000,000 are the number of dollars the GOP does want to spend on additional war funding in Afghanistan, but only as long as it doesn鈥檛 come attached to an additional bill adding new education funding that would avert teacher layoffs. You see? It鈥檚 all about priorities. War comes first and you and I come last! Ready for some more numbers?

600 are the number of dollars spent each second on Government Math鈥OR KIDS!?
Gee, you take the fun out of spending. That's like reminding a shopper that she's goign to have to pay her Visa card next month.