Time is money.
So the old adage runs. But what happens if we reverse that adage?
Let’s try it. Let’s say “Money is time.”
A million seconds adds up to about twelve days.
A billion seconds comes to 31.7 years.
A trillion seconds equals approximately 31, 709. 8 years.
Remember: these are seconds.
So the old adage runs. But what happens if we reverse that adage?
Let’s try it. Let’s say “Money is time.”
A million seconds adds up to about twelve days.
A billion seconds comes to 31.7 years.
A trillion seconds equals approximately 31, 709. 8 years.
Remember: these are seconds.
Now try and wrap your head around that last number. A trillion seconds equals 31, 709.8 years.
Now suppose every second equaled a dollar bill.
This year the Congressional Budget Office has reported that the total debt of the federal government, which the CBO rightly calls “Debt Held By The Public,” comes to a whopping 13.1 trillion dollars.
This week a Republican Congress approved the “Omnibus” bill, throwing fiscal caution to the winds, delighting their Democratic colleagues, and turning their backs on those constituents who had elected them to bring change to the federal government.
Let’s ignore the fact that this bill funds programs that are anathema not just to most Republicans, but to many Democrats as well. Let’s just stick to the money on the latest budget fiasco and Donald Trump.
Some of you reading these words have lived, as I once did, under the burden of heavy debt. You know the routine: you get the daily calls from credit card companies, you scramble to get money into your account to cover checks, you wake in the middle of the night and wonder how you’re going to pay the electric bill or buy groceries for the week.
Debt—heavy debt—is a cancer. It eats at you every day. It fills you with hopelessness. It steals your future. If you’ve experienced—or are experiencing—this awful burden, your blood pressure probably just kicked up several notches.
I am no economist. I won’t even pretend to understand how year after year we can sink deeper and deeper into debt without making some effort to slash our bloated federal budget. But I am a father and grandfather, and when I look at our future, I tremble for my children and grandchildren.
We have forgotten, I think, that we the living owe a debt to those who came before us and those who will come after us. Like some drunken wastrel, we ignore the sacrifices of our ancestors while we go on piling up our liabilities on the shoulders of the next generation. We are thieves, stealing from the young and the unborn for our own pleasures.
For several months, I have wondered why so many Americans—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents—are supporting Donald Trump for president. Now I am beginning to understand.
See the link below for Congressman Huelskamp's article.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/17/an-early-christmas-present/
Now suppose every second equaled a dollar bill.
This year the Congressional Budget Office has reported that the total debt of the federal government, which the CBO rightly calls “Debt Held By The Public,” comes to a whopping 13.1 trillion dollars.
This week a Republican Congress approved the “Omnibus” bill, throwing fiscal caution to the winds, delighting their Democratic colleagues, and turning their backs on those constituents who had elected them to bring change to the federal government.
Let’s ignore the fact that this bill funds programs that are anathema not just to most Republicans, but to many Democrats as well. Let’s just stick to the money on the latest budget fiasco and Donald Trump.
Some of you reading these words have lived, as I once did, under the burden of heavy debt. You know the routine: you get the daily calls from credit card companies, you scramble to get money into your account to cover checks, you wake in the middle of the night and wonder how you’re going to pay the electric bill or buy groceries for the week.
Debt—heavy debt—is a cancer. It eats at you every day. It fills you with hopelessness. It steals your future. If you’ve experienced—or are experiencing—this awful burden, your blood pressure probably just kicked up several notches.
I am no economist. I won’t even pretend to understand how year after year we can sink deeper and deeper into debt without making some effort to slash our bloated federal budget. But I am a father and grandfather, and when I look at our future, I tremble for my children and grandchildren.
We have forgotten, I think, that we the living owe a debt to those who came before us and those who will come after us. Like some drunken wastrel, we ignore the sacrifices of our ancestors while we go on piling up our liabilities on the shoulders of the next generation. We are thieves, stealing from the young and the unborn for our own pleasures.
For several months, I have wondered why so many Americans—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents—are supporting Donald Trump for president. Now I am beginning to understand.
See the link below for Congressman Huelskamp's article.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/17/an-early-christmas-present/
RSS Feed