93 Days And $328,894,249,547.79, But Don't Worry, Be Happy!

M2RB:  The Ramones

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothing ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up

How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things
Makes wish that I could be a dog

When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever want to be that way
I don't wanna grow up

Seems that folks turn into things that they never want
The only thing to live for is today...

 

From Thursday, 9 August 2012 to Friday, 9 November 2012, the national debt increased by $328,894,249,547.79 ($328.9 BILLION).

 

That’s 13 weeks or $25,299,557,657.52 ($25.3 BILLION) per week.

That’s 93 days or $3,536,497,306.97 ($3.5 BILLION) per day.

That’s 2,232 hours or $147,354,054.46 ($147.4 MILLION) per hour.

That’s 133,920 minutes or $2,455,900.91 ($2.5 MILLION) per minute.

That’s 8,035,200 seconds or $40,931.68 per second.

That's  $1,060.95 each for every man, woman and child in America...in just 93 days.

To put that into perspective and assuming no behavioural changes, increases in debt service costs, and increases in government spending (IOW, completely unrealistic assumptions):

According to the CBO, increasing the 25/28/33/35 tax brackets to 28/31/36/39.6 will raise:

FY2013: $40 billion or 11.43 days of government funding.

FY2013-2014: $95 billion or 27.14 days of government funding.

FY2013-2022: $730 billion or 208.57 days of government funding.

Go ahead and raise taxes on the “evil rich,” if it will make you feel better. I just don’t care anymore. Any revenue impact will be negligible, but the costs to employees will be painful. The country has a SPENDING problem. Period. Story. End of.

As for the GOP, it should either go off the fiscal cliff or give Obama everything that he wants and every hour of every day for the next 4 years remind the country that Obama and Democrats OWN the new recession. Republicans warned about, predicted the failure of and voted against the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Stimulus Act of 2009 en masse and en banc. It did fail and the majority of Americans continue to believe that it failed; hence, the banishment of the very word and the new hotness of “investments.” No “compromises.” Don’t put your name on anything.

As for the conservatives, who stayed home last week, you have forfeited your right to complain. Just STFU, already! 

As for my fellow libertarians, who voted for that winnah, Gary Johnson, congratulations on your meaningless protest vote!  Light up a doobie, bro, and tune into Alex Jones. I think he’ll be talking about transhumanism and Rick Perry’s plot to takeover the world today. You’re idiots.

As for my fellow Americans, who voted for the vulgar, hateful, ignorant, and irresponsible child in the White House, “[I] ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were [my] countrymen.”  By the way, you stupid, stupid, very stupid fucks, your share of the national debt is now $52,402.29.

I Don't Want To Grow Up Lyrics - The Ramones

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothing ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up

How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things
Makes wish that I could be a dog

When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever want to be that way
I don't wanna grow up

Seems that folks turn into things that they never want
The only thing to live for is today...
I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set
I don't wanna grow up

Open up the medicine chest
I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinkin all night
I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb on grand street
When I see the 5 oclock news
I don't wanna grow up

Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float on a broom
Fall in love, get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up