Our $Billions in taxes vs Gov $Trillions in spending: Sequester is less than 10 days of gov spending

"Let me be clear, we do not have a cash problem, we have a spending problem."

How much money does the US spend each year?

The US spends about $3,700 billion dollars ($3.7 trillion) annually.

How much does the US government spend in a day?  

Approximately $10,136,986,301 per day! 

Yet we hear on the news that if we were to cut $85 billion in government spending (less than 10 days worth of spending, the world as we know it will stop spinning, children will starve, planes won't fly and over 800,000 civilian employees of the US military would be fired.  

"What's A Few $Billions Or $Trillions More Or Less? Here's The Long And Short Of It"

Please continue reading at Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/10/whats-a-few-billions-or-trillions-more-or-less-heres-the-long-and-short-of-it/