US Government spends $41K on deficit every second
The United States racked up $41,210 in debt every second of every day in 2011 — making the federal deficit the largest portion of the economy since the height of war spending in the 1940s.
That shocking statistic was released by Face the Facts USA, a nonpartisan policy initiative, in an attempt to ‘wake up’ American voters and politicians to the rising piles of debt that the nation is accumulating.