Endless Congressional Spending Has Been Plaguing Us for Decades: It All Started in 1971

The U.S. national debt has increased by $300,000 since I began writing this sentence. Every 30 seconds, another $1 million tacks onto a debt that now exceeds $33 trillion.
In other words, it takes the average American years — in most cases, many years — to earn what runaway government spending adds to the national debt in mere seconds.
These numbers defy comprehension.
While most Americans seem to understand that this level of spending has a direct bearing on their lives, they do not