Here is a more understandable way to see where we are in this current mess............

Here is something I came across on the US Debt Crisis that I think adds perspective.

The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so here is breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let's put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:

U.S. income: $2,170,000,000,000
Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (about 1 percent of the budget)

It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to.
Therefore, let's remove eight zeros from these numbers and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family.

Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700
Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200
Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Amount cut from the budget: $385

You tell me, are we making any progress on the US debt issue? It seems to me that all of this talk is just another political smoke screen.

Noah Webster on the Constitution.

"The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion."

Noah Webster, History of the United States : 1832

Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff on Conservativism.

“[Its] history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.” (my emphasis added)

                                                                         - Robert L. Dabney, over 100 years ago

His insights have been proven to be true more and more with each slide away from being an honorable, respectable, God fearing people who stand for Truth because it is central to the Great Commission (Mt. 28:20).  Men no longer know how or why they should stand for anything.