And I Guess We Don’t

This is just to help you get your mind around it. This math is from Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack. If someone gave you a million dollars, and told you to spend it at a rate of a dollar a second, and you started last week, you would be out of money by now. If they told you to do the same thing with a billion dollars, you would have had to start in 1974 to be out of money by now. But if the amount were a trillion, in order to be out of money now, you would have had to start 32,000 years ago. And we are winging trillion dollar deficits around the place almost . . . well, almost as if we don’t know what they are.