It was more of a sarcastic remark.
It shouldn't be sarcastic. It's a start. You need to start somewhere. I'm just saying that if politicians continue to increase spending and only offer up minuscule cuts in some programs for political reasons, we are never going to accomplish anything resembling a reduction in the total debt.
By the way, hearty congratulations are in order to the United States of America! Yesterday, they officially reached and surpassed the $16 trillion mark. For those of you who have trouble visualizing that, here it is.
$16,000,000,000,000.00Here's some more fun with numbers. Each citizen's share of the debt comes out to nearly $52,000.00. That's assuming that all of the 311.5 million people in the US actually pay for this debt. Unfortunately about half the people are too busy collecting and adding to the debt to be concerned about how much their share of it is. Assuming all the members of this forum who live in the US are taxpayers, as opposed to tax receivers, you all need to write a check for $104,000.00 and immediately send it to the IRS. If you don't, then you aren't paying your "fair share".