Here's one of those statistics that I will through at you .. your eyes will glaze over .. and you will skim until you get to something mildly entertaining. But try and wrap your brain around this. On Tuesday of this week, the House passed another continuing resolution, which includes $6 billion in cuts. Six billion? That's all they could muster. On the same day the Republicans passed this bill and cut $6 billion from our budget, the national debt jumped $72 billion. CNSNews has another way for you to put it in perspective ..

       

If Congress were to cut $6 billion every three weeks for the next 36 weeks, it would manage to save between now and late November as much money as the Treasury added to the nation's net debt during just the business hours of Tuesday, March 15.

I don't know how else to stress this: we are operating at unsustainable levels. Unless somebody in Washington grows gonads of steel, it may be that we lead to our own destruction .. well, maybe not for me, I've outlived this thing. But for your grandchildren. They're screwed. Here's some light reading for your weekend: Already too late to stop debt crisis?