Great ticker and good point. I am so tired of the same non issues year after year while the real issues get ignored. One of my pet peeves is this breaking it down to every man woman and child.

"If, on the other hand, fixing our economy, locking up the fraudsters and putting a stop to the rampant theft from each and every citizen in this room, which has personally indebted each and every man, woman and child in America by more than $40,000 over the last three years,"


Every man woman and child my sound good but I believe it is much more effective to break it down on a per household basis. Not only does that give you a bigger number but it makes it real. At any given point in time, our population will include children. Children are not wage earners and thus can have no ability to pay down debt. While true that they will have the debt burden on them at some future point, they will be replaced with new children by the time they come of age.

To hit home, you must use per household, then people have something that is a much harder number to swallow.

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Dear Euroland: Relax, Germany has a plan for your money!Political Capital Defined: We are out of money but will tax our citizens for whatever it takes to "SAVE" the Euro.