Here is one that is similar the numbers I was talking about. Instead of giving you link, I will just do a cut and paste. It is a over a year old and the National debt has increased by over a trllion since then. Wow one trillion in a little over year, boggles the mind doesn't it?

How Does the National
Debt Affect Me?

See also:
The Truth about the National Debt

These past two years, the
daily headlines and the TV news have been filled with reports
of the Herculean struggles between the Congress and President
George W. Bush over the Federal budgets for FY-2005 through FY-2007. This to-the-mat confrontation
has even threatened the unthinkable curtailment of "non-essential"
Federal services.

Only the financial sleight-of-hand of US Treasury
Secretary John W. Snow in disinvesting from Federal civil service
retirement funds and withholding receipts and interest payable
on Treasury securities held by these trust funds has forestalled
the international debacle of defaulting on maturing Federal debts.
This bitter contest over the Federal budget is triggered by deepening
concern over unprecedented deficits propelling the out-of-control growth of our astronomical national
debt.

While the enormity of the national debt has been
a popular whipping boy for as long as any of us can remember,
can the owner/manager of the emerging business do much about this
problem? How does the national debt really affect the owner/ manager
of the emerging business? Isn't it much like worrying about the
hole in the ozone layer — obviously immensely important, but
a very remote phenomena from my day-to-day concerns?

To understand how the national debt does affect the
owner/manager of the emerging business, let's look at the numbers.

The national debt has now passed $7.50 trillion. Thus,the ceiling imposed on the national debt by the Congress
has just had to be raised to $8.18 trillion. Because of the Treasury's financial legerdemain,
the real number is slightly above this ceiling. Per capita, this
is more than $25,300 for every man, woman and child in the United
States. Federal taxes in excess of $1,140 per year must be collected
for every man, woman and child in the United States simply to
pay the interest due on the national debt. Our annual appropriations
for virtually all other Federal activities pale in contrast with
the line item for Federal debt service.

Since October 1, 2003, the outstanding public debt
has been increasing an average of $1.60 billion every day! This
increase is almost $18,500 per second. Since 1992, the national debt has doubled! These numbers are mind boggling.

So, how does this affect the owner/manager of the
emerging business? In many ways!

First, approximately 17 cents out of every dollar
of total tax revenue collected is immediately used merely to pay
the burgeoning interest on the Federal debt. This is now surpassing
the costs for our entire defense establishment, and it is exceeded
only by the revenues needed to fund the total Medicare and Medicaid
programs. (Ostensibly, Social Security is funded independently.)
We are held hostage by this horrendous debt; 17 cents is the ransom
to be paid out of every dollar we must cough up in taxes.

Thus, absolutely no governmental services or benefits
are delivered in return for 17 percent of our total Federal tax
bill. These are substantial funds that could most prudently be
re-invested in the growth of our own business, but must be shoveled
out instead simply to service the interest on the Federal debt.
These substantial funds are diverted by Government fiat from potentially
constructive economic investments in one's own enterprise into
barren interest payments to the world of strangers who hold these
obligations of the Treasury of the United States.

And secondly, the spending power of our present and
potential customers would be increased dramatically if this sterile
17 percent of our total tax bill that is immediately swallowed
by interest payments could only be freed for the purchase of goods
and services. [Approximately half of all individual income taxes
are required to pay the interest on the Federal debt.] While some
of the recipients of these interest payments may recycle these
funds into the purchase of domestic goods and services from emerging
businesses, much of the Federal debt is held by foreigners. A
substantial portion of the income of the average family of four
is being devoured to pay the interest on this "family debt"
equivalent to over $100,000. Thus, the Federal debt is a heavy drag
on the economy, impeding job creation and entrepreneurial expansion
as well as consumer spending on goods and services.

How does the national debt affect the owner/manager
of the emerging business? It drains substantial funds out of the
business that could otherwise be invested in job creation and
entrepreneurial expansion. And it drains substantial funds out
of consumers' pockets that could otherwise be available for the
acquisition of goods and services. While it may not be observable,
the national debt casts an oppressive pall upon the whole
economy. And this burden inevitably impedes the growth and prosperity
of the emerging business.

Some folks can dish it out but cannot take it

You are such a thoughtful person. Now I can't let you be nice without giving you a gift of my own can I?

Some folks can dish it out but cannot take it