"that's just the beginning" because if you look at where we were going that you actually get even more depressing because not only do we have this huge budget deficit or this huge operating cost, this loss, I guess you can say on an annual basis, but it's gonna get worse it's gonna get worse not just the overspending not just the overspending on the government's programs of the defense, and all of that but because our debt is increasing so much that the interest, the amount we spend on interest is only going to incease and that just make matters worse the more you spend on interests, the larger deficits the larger deficits, the more you have to borrow the more you have to spend on interest and this is a long time line right here goes out to 2080, but it's pretty clear that something something is going to give so the percentage of the GDP the government, the size of the government has historically be around this, you know,depending on different periods of the history, but in the recent past, it's been the 20 percent range but if you just let things go the way they are gonna go and a lot of these kind of mandatory spending things we've already obligating ourselves to what we think we obligate ourselves to it looks like the size of the government is going to take over the economy and it's gonna grow over the next 20 30 years 30% 35% 40% of the entire economy now if that by itself is not scary or depressing enough for you then we just have to look at this chart right over here 