I ran across this amazing YouTube video which illustrates the magnitude of the problems we face due to Democrats in Congress.

How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies to provide the answer.

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One of the most popular political videos of the past few months is a fascinating visual depiction of the President's Budget cuts, done by a user who calls himself, "Political Math". Using pennies to demonstrate how little President Obama is actually cutting from the federal budget, Political Math has racked up over 800K views with this gem.
Well, the RNC caught notice - Chairman Michael Steele has just invited his "fellow YouTuber" to come to Washington on his dime to share his common sense and receive a "grassroots logic" award from the GOP. The video is worth a watch...

As I’m sure most of you have heard a few weeks ago President Obama announced his team was going to take 90 days to cut $100 million out of the budget. So, like many others it got me thinking about just how much money that is.
I’ve seen a few different visualizations of the cut and two of them I found particularly good. The first is a picture that was posted on the Just Citizens blog called A few trillion here or there. It’s a nice way to see how much of the budget is ACTUALLY BEING CUT.
The best one I’ve seen is the above Youtube video which can be found here, it is only a minute and a half and well worth the time.
It uses pennies to show Obama’s recently passed budget. It breaks down the mandatory spending, discretionary spending, the amount were borrowing, and the amount Obama wants to cut.
This is the typical Washington DC game that we should ALL be sick and tired of. Both parties constantly do this; they only care about the sound bites and not about REAL POLICY CHANGE. Our county is in dire economic times right now and real change and solutions are needed by BOTH parties.
We CANNOT continue down this road of spending, spending, spending…we are going to have to pay up eventually. The politicians just keep passing the buck onto the next generation and now we’re starting to see the affects.
President Obama and Congress need to CUT SPENDING DRASTICIALLY. If they do not they will oversee one of the darkest economic times in our history.

h/t to Philip Klein at American Spectator. This will give you a great perspective on Obama cutting a 100 million from the budget - maybe they can cut photo ops with Air Force One and the Statue of Liberty. Tagged: 100 million, Barack Obama, Budget Cut, Conservative Issues

$100 in pennies help conceptualize Barack Obama's proposed budget cuts.

But I have to tell you that I am more than a little troubled by the size and rate of growth of the Federal Deficit.  I found this video to be a helpful tool to put into context the actual size of it all. Tagged: blogging, entertainment, humor, Interwebs, obama, politics, video, WTF

I don’t/won’t venture into political discussion that often, but I thought this was a pretty eye opening video.