We usually hear about “lies, damn lies, and statistics,” but, in the case of the US national debt, it’s more like “lies, damn lies, and more damn lies.” Bush and Congressional Republicans campaigned on promises of fiscal restraint, but their promises have turned out to be even bigger lies than the ones they gave us about Iraq:
According to the this article [1], our national debt has ballooned to $8 trillion, or $28,000 for every person in America. That’s more than $110,000 for a family of four, which is more than the cost of a graduate degree at an Ivy League school. Imagine, *every family of four in America* could give one of their kids a graduate degree from an Ivy League school, but instead we’re paying for things like tax breaks for the richest 0.1% of the population, a bridge to nowhere in Alaska, and a needless invasion of a third-world country. That last point is especially troublesome, because the most wasteful of all goverment pork is the US military. The US spends as much on military as all of the other countries on the planet combined, yet, even with all those resources, the Republicans who run our government can’t even control a tiny, third-world country. I don’t know about you, but I want my money back.
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