The debt gets front-page coverage in the Post, which offers these mind-boggling figures:

“Right now, this year, we have 1.6 trillion in debt coming due. That’s roughly twice individual income tax revenue. Our only plausible strategy for paying that back is to borrow more money,” says Leonard Burman, an economist at Syracuse University.
Under some grim scenarios, the cumulative debt of the United States could rise to several times the nation’s annual GDP by mid-century. David M. Walker, a former U.S. comptroller who has long thundered about unfunded government obligations running to the tens of trillions, recently testified before Congress that because of long-term entitlement obligations, “our total federal financial hole is about $10 trillion more than the current estimated net worth of all Americans and the gap has been growing.”

Hard to get your head around it. And perhaps that’s the idea . . .

Saul Alinsky wrote:

The moment one gets into the area of $25 million and above, let alone a billion, the listener is completely out of touch, no longer really interested, because the figures have gone above his experience and almost are meaningless. Millions of Americans do not know how many million dollars make up a billion.