– This video is from 2009 but I think it does an excellent job of visualizing the true scale of the problem with our national debt, and the government’s unwillingness to make the hard decisions.
How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies to provide the answer.
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