U.S. Debt Clock
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” -Milton Friedman
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. … Roosevelt’s policies were very destructive. Roosevelt’s policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been.” -Milton Friedman
“Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.” -Ezra Pound
“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.” -Andrew Jackson (the only U.S. President in history to pay off the national debt)
