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The higher the debt is, the richer we are?

Congressman Mitch McConnell recently pointed out that the United States Congress is spending money at a rate of $1 billion per hour -- all of it financed with increased debt.

In this interview with Jan Helfeld, California Congressman Pete Stark argues that the more national debt we have, the wealthier we are as a country because "debt for a nation is different from debt for an individual or company." That was back when the national debt was $5 trillion. Today the national debt is $10,962,887,347,011 -- as I write this.

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Congress spends $1 billion an hour

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is fed up with Congress' overspending efforts to stimulate the economy and he's come up with a neat way to express it: Over the past 50 days, Congress has spent $1 billion per hour.

"In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus," McConnell says. "To put that in perspective, that's about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour-most of it borrowed. There's simply no question: government spending has spun out of control."

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