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It has been reported that due to the recent votes of the Senate & House our debt is a whopping $11.3 Trillion smakeroos.  To shed some light on this gargantuan amount of money, let's look at some comparisons:

A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

A trillion dollars is so large a number that only politicians can use the term in conversation. (Wall Street, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Bro's.)

Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000.

The country has not existed for a trillion seconds.

Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.

Because of Washington, every member of your family now owes $37,667.

Remember good tax paying citizens, this is just the Federal Government.  It doesn't include what the City, County and State yanks away from you.

I guess we're going to have to start working harder to help pay for all the entitlement programs in play.  Hopefully your job doesn't get affected by the whiplash effect coming down the pike.  There might be a silver lining in all of this.  We could bring back the CCC and WPA for much needed public  projects like..... A new stadium downtown.  Heck maybe we could even throw a few out of work souls at fixing our streets.

If this doesn't cause your blood pressure to rise, then see a doctor.  I took some of my frustration out by writing our Senators and Congressman an email.  As their boss (that's right, they are employed by me, John Q. Citizen), I'm going to fire them on grounds of incompetence, unless some of my demands are realized.  Until then they should consider themselves on notice.

October 6, 2008

Dear [Insert Illustrious Name Here],

I am one who is fed up with the way Washington is being run. I demand an explanation on how this financial crisis happened and who was responsible for it.

If laws were broken, I want those responsible prosecuted. For those who acted unethically, I want to know who they are and what they did. I want hearings on this matter, and I demand that they be open, not behind closed doors.

I want to hear from you that you support open hearings. I hold Congress responsible to get to the bottom of this matter so that it will never happen again.