Remember way back, the last time unemployment was over 10%, when Reagan was President, and his economic flunkies said "deficits don't matter"?
Well they do ... and now the deficits are much much bigger (almost all Bush's fault).
The problem though is most folks have no connection with BILLION or TRILLION or even MILLION. They are all just big numbers.
This is a problem because unless you understand (and really feel) what these mean, you can't have a sense of the mess that the country is in.
So ... Here is how big the deficit is now ...