The United States of Debtor's Prison

National debt reaches 9,000,000,000,000.00.

Remember, that number is your number. My number. It's easy for people to separate themselves from their government. If the Republicans have been successful at one thing, that would be it. They have made the government the bad guy, and have placed a wall between the way Americans think about their government. Most Americans feel no connection to what their government actually does, they feel disconnected from it, and so the debt number doesn't feel like our number.

However, a portion of this debt is yours whether you like it or not, and you will have to pay for it whether you like it or not.

So, yea, the tax cuts have done a heckuva job growing our economy. Now, if we could just keep cutting taxes and weakening the value of our currency we can eventually make all of our money problems go away--mostly by not having any government and no money, just debt.

Welcome to the United States of Debtor's Prison.

This is what happens when you have a pathetically uninformed, apathetic electorate that allows radicals to rig the system with crackpot economists.