Check out Our Newest Member of the Prieto Post Family!!


Check out My latest Posts on Pinterest!

FlipBoard Mag of the Month

Flipboard mag of the Month

Flip Board State Of The Nation !

TWEET FEED

111th Congress ‘Most Productive Ever’ — In a ‘Termites Devouring a House’ Ki...

 
 

Sent to you by John via Google Reader:

 
 

via Michelle Malkin by Doug Powers on 12/27/10

**Written by Doug Powers

In the past month, story after story after story has been published mentioning how the 111th Congress is the "most productive in decades."

What a nice spin on an absolute disaster. These people would have reported the Titanic sinking as "Ocean-going public bathing more than ever."

To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it depends on what your definition "productive" is:

(CNSNews.com) – The federal government has accumulated more new debt–$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury.

That equals $10,429.64 in new debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538 people counted in the United States by the 2010 Census.

The total national debt of $13,858,529,371,601.09 (or $13.859 trillion), as recorded by the U.S. Treasury at the close of business on Dec. 22, now equals $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

In fact, the 111th Congress not only has set the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history, but also has out-stripped its nearest competitor, the 110th, by an astounding $1.262 trillion in new debt.

Voters rewarded that kind of "productivity" with a drubbing last month. If anything about the last two years deserves to be referred to as "productive," it was election day.

**Written by Doug Powers

Twitter @ThePowersThatBe


 
 

Things you can do from here:

 
 

Comments

Popular Posts