Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Tusser
The national debt has now increased by more than $64,000 per federal taxpayer since Barack Obama was inaugurated president.
At the close of business on Jan. 20, 2009, according to the U.S. Treasury, the total debt of the federal government was $10,626,877,048,913.08. By the close of business on July 10, 2012, that debt had climbed to $15,885,854,755,351.47—an increase of $5,258,977,706,438.39.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill,
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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