We spotted a little (or not so little) statistic recently in a news release from the organization Citizens Against Government Waste, a group that opposes the outrageous federal spending that has our nation $13 trillion in debt.
Here it is: “$98,000 is spent by the Federal Government every second.”
You read that correctly. With every passing second, nearly $100,000 — taxed away from the American people or borrowed from future generations of Americans — is spent by Washington.
Americans are rightly concerned about the many gallons of oil contaminating the Gulf of Mexico from the BP spill. Should we be any less concerned about the huge spill of taxpayers’ money that is contaminating our economic future?