Forum Post: This would make a GREAT protest sign!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 18, 2011, 2:16 p.m. EST by MonetizingDiscontent
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(((This would make a great placard!)))
U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000
(((Let's remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget)))
Annual family income: $21,700.
Money the family spent: $38,200.
New debt on the credit card: $16,500.
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Total budget cuts: $385.
(((Of course though, it would need to be a very big sign!)))
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Welcome to the tea party!
And the crazy thing is... before the Mortgage fallout/crisis... this is exactly what everyone's personal budget looked like in middle-America. Truth be told... middle-America drove itself into bankruptcy right along with its own Government. Looks to me like people thought they had it better than they did... and that greed and consumption pervades from the Top down.