Stop Spending Our Future

I found an exceptional blog post over on Change We Can Believe In. The highlight of the post was the following video. It is worth your time to check it out. (It is under 3 minutes.)

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This is a great way to help understand the magnitude of spending proposed by this administration. Most Americans deal with annual budgets in the tens of thousands of dollars, so it is difficult for most of us to have a proper perspective when thinking about figures like $597 Billion, or $3.6 Trillion. Even removing the words "billion" and "trillion", it's still difficult to really comprehend the meaning of $597,000,000,000.00 and $3,600,000,000,000.00. Yeah, there are a few more zeroes -- but in the grand scheme of things, what do three more zeroes really mean?

Our future, that's what.