If you want a stern dose of reality I recommend visiting an important website, one to keep you in touch with the real world in a society where media and political spin abound.

The site is USDebtClock.Org and all you need to do is look at the steadily changing, ever flickering numbers that literally jump out at you to get in touch with the real economic world.  As I write this the grand total stands at over $12.4 trillion.  

That encompasses $40,239 owed per citizen.  While this figure has been quoted frequently when this verboten topic has been discussed the real figure of overriding importance that has tended to be overlooked is the amount per taxpayer.

While $40,239 is a far from insignificant figure, it is nowhere near as calamitous as the salient number determined by taxpayer in that the aforementioned figure includes a large population of children as well as numerous other citizens not paying current taxes.  

It is understandable why in Propaganda 1 Nazi obfuscation master in residence Joseph Goebbels stressed repetition.

The idea is you keep repeating the same basic points you want to cement into the minds of the controllable, in this case the Limbaugh-Palin-Tea Bag-Fox News solidly committed zealots.

Go back a few years ago and you saw the same argument being raised regarding nuclear power that has been shifted now to global warming.  Rush Limbaugh, who is screaming "Fraud!" repeatedly on global warming used the same vocal energy in the area of nuclear power.  

Talk of meltdowns and any harm that might be visited upon us involved nothing more than fraudulent propaganda.

Anybody inclined to laugh off the current Tea Bag Movement as just a passing fancy involving a few isolated kooks had better guess again.

Analyze what was said at the group's recent convention where Sarah Palin regaled her audience along with the series of preceding rallies cheer led by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others and a disturbing trend surfaces.

These Teabaggers hold some discomforting points in common with the Brownshirts of Germany's pre-Third Reich period.  Many from the progressive movement in Germany during that period laughed off the appearance of "a funny looking little man with a mustache" along with those "kooky guys in the Brownshirts" as one conclusion was clear to them.

This strange breed of crude malcontents could not hope to prevail in a land of rich culture such as Germany.  This was, after all, the nation of Goethe, Bismarck, Bach, Beethoven, Schiller.  Yes, Wagner held some of those same bigoted views of Hitler and the Brownshirts, but that was seen by many as a tragic aberration of a great composer and he had a genius that these presumed misfits did not.