Where Will You Come Up With Your $440,000.00 ???!!!?

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Recently David Walker went before congress and gave his report. Who is David Walker? He is the comptroller general for the US. The report he gave was neithe political nor emotional but statistically factual and yet hardly anyone in Washington listened of gave any indication they understood what he was saying. If you will read the following article and not pre-judge it because Glen Beck is the interviewer you will find out exactly what he was saying---THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS BROKE,PERIOD! The entitlement programs we already have in place are untenable in their present form, much less with another entitlement program like universal healthcare! The present cost of social security, medicare and medicaid is 53 TRILLION dollars per year and it continues to grow at a rate of 2-3 TRILLION per year if we just do nothing! If you are thinking that we will just tax the rich a little more, well, think again. Here is an excerpt of the interview: [i]GLENN: It's my understanding when people say tax the rich, they need to pay more, it is my understanding that you could take all of the income, income, not income tax, all of the income generated in this country and still not afford what we have coming. WALKER: Well, to put it a different way, the $53 trillion is 90% of the estimated total net worth of every American, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and every billionaire. You are not going to tax your way out of this problem. You're not going to grow your way out of this problem. You are not going to do it by con training spending. You are going to have to do a combination of things and the biggest thing is going to be entitlement reform, Social Security and Medicare, healthcare being a much greater challenge. And we need to start soon because time's working against us. That $53 trillion number is going up $2 to $3 trillion a year by doing nothing. [/i] Presently, every houshold's share of this debt is a measly $440,000 dollars. I don't know where I will come up with mine, do you? Here is the interview: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/4595/ Someone tell me how we can continue to bleed money like this and survive as a nation? Why is it our elected officials continue to drive this train as fast as it can toward this precipice?