With all apologies to Perot, that huge sucking sound that you hear is tax money being sucked out of the next generation’s pockets to pay for our excesses. Which hardly seems like a fair trade, especially when the increasingly incomprehensibly-sized stimulus packages (tell me, seriously, can you even imagine one trillion dollars?) don’t seem to be having their desired effects.

Damit, I knew I left a definition of insanity here somewhere…

The prevailing belief in Majority Democratic Washington is that the way to improve the economy is not to increase production and productivity, but rather to borrow trillions out of the economy and let it trickle back in through government spending.

I’m starting to get the feeling that this is going to be a long and tiring four years--and hoping that Republicans can make strong inroads in the midterm elections.

Anyway, read the rest of that NRO post above. It has an interesting idea (a “zero cost” stimulus package) from a couple Republican representatives that has almost zero chance of being implemented. Instead we’ll get the big government double down that will put us even deeper in the hole.

Update: While my imagination may have come short, some folks have done a good job of explaining and showing us precisely what one trillion dollars might actually look like if it were converted into real money. Check it out. Thanks, Nathan!