Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has come up with a
vivid new way to express his contention that the nation is spending
way
too much money it doesn’t have.

McConnell includes the tweaks in his opening remarks on the Senate
floor on the 51st day that President Obama has been in office.

“In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion
between
the Stimulus and the Omnibus,” McConnell says. “To put that in
perspective,
that’s about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour—most of it
borrowed.
There’s simply no question: government spending has spun out of
control.”

50 days times 24 hours equals 1,200 hours. 1,200 times 1 billion
equals 1.2 trillion (a thousand billions is a trillion).