GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE IS NOW

The Comptroller General of the United States , David M Walker calls our present economic condition a train wreck in need of a major shake up and it's currently costing Americans $175,000 per person. 

Allen L Roland                                http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/12/25.html 

The Cost Of Bush: $32 Trillion

Andrew Sullivan

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/12/the-cost-of-bus.html

17 Dec 2007 02:02 pm

The opinion of another shrill hysteric? Just David M.Walker, the Comptroller General of the United States and head of the GAO:

In a speech today at the National Press Club, he said, "If the federal government was a private corporation and the same report came out this morning, our stock would be dropping and there would be talk about whether the company's management and directors needed a major shake-up."

Walker urged greater transparency and accountability over the federal government's operations, financial condition, and fiscal outlook...

"The federal government's fiscal exposures totaled approximately $53 trillion as of September 30, 2007, up more than $2 trillion from September 30, 2006, and an increase of more than $32 trillion from about $20 trillion as of September 30, 2000," Walker said . "This translates into a current burden of about $175,000 per American or approximately $455,000 per American household."

Is anyone concerned or better yet ~ does anyone care ?