I find it more helpful to divide these huge numbers by the number of US households (aprox. 100,000,000)
Doing that we get $10,000/household instead of $3,000 for every man, woman, child, prisoner, etc.
I think budget numbers ought to be reported this way. The recent $410 billion spending bill would be reported as $4100/household spending bill. Suddenly people start to think differently - Do I really want to borrow $4100 to spend on this?
Doing that we get $10,000/household instead of $3,000 for every man, woman, child, prisoner, etc.
I think budget numbers ought to be reported this way. The recent $410 billion spending bill would be reported as $4100/household spending bill. Suddenly people start to think differently - Do I really want to borrow $4100 to spend on this?