Glenn Beck

We spend more paying interest on that debt over a trillion dollars a year now than we spend on the entire United States military and nobody's talking about it.

I said we're going to spend a trillion dollars, and every economist said when that happens, we're a toast.

We're now spending over a trillion dollars, and nobody's talking about it.

We borrow about $50 billion every week just to keep our lights on.

That's not a healthy balance sheet for a country.

Never been done before.

And that is a slow fuse, and it's already lit.

And, you know, there's no memory.

Nobody is laying awake at night.

Maybe five people in the country are laying awake going, our national debt is out of control.

And people should.

People should be paying attention.

How about this one?

Our national report card.

Only 13% of our 8th graders are proficient in history of their own country.

This is the lowest score of any subject they test.

Why are we having so many problems?

Because they don't.

13% are proficient.

4 in 10 couldn't even get a basic understanding of any document put in front of them.