Imagine a family running its budget like the federal government

What good can one say about a family that, year after year, pays for 43% of its budget with borrowed money? Here’s a simple and shocking way of comparing the federal budget with a family budget. Many more facts and figures about the United States debt here.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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