USG's fiscal exposures = $53 trillion as of Sept. 30, 2007" +/- $455,000 per family.

"Obligations Ignored"
Scott Horton - Dec 18, 2007
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/12/hbc-90001943

This morning we pick up the newspaper or turn on the broadcast news and hear a mixture of seasonal human-interest stories. Then the “real” news drum starts. Jacko has made an appearance looking like a mummy. The Russians, it seems, have delivered fuel for a nuclear reactor to Iran. The religiously tinged battles between Huckabee and Romney continue ....

.........

So here it is, an obscure speech delivered by an obscure person, with a message that no one wants to hear (http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/printer_72998.shtml):

For the 11th year in a row, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) was prevented from expressing an opinion on the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. government .......

“This translates into a current burden of about $175,000 per American or approximately $455,000 per American household.”

I'll put it with the other unpaid bills.

We're as doomed as doomed can be....

I would sure like to see a figure for cost per household/family of USG exposure since Dec. 12, 2000, Jan. 1, 2001, or inauguration. Even full fiscal years under Bush, but reliably accurate as main concern. How many households are they stating? Do they use official census numbers?

There are quite a few activist groups watching government. Who is focusing on/keeping books on USG?

we are the suckers left behind!

and football ... and shopping ... and snow ... what a stupid fucking country.

We can improve our credit score, pay off our credit cards and, say, isn't there a new war you've always wanted?

We're talking working for half of one's life to pay off these obligations. Thanks for the memories you selfish baby boomers.

I might have it all by then