My wife and I took the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace course this year and it was great. I get the little newsletter now and typically I just delete it, but I liked the stat that came in the one today, interesting to view this way. I'm sure it will cause some kind of debate, go at it.

"If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand." - Dave Ramsey