You will find your self singing this tune on your way to work, in the elevator, etc Like the Original School House Rocks it is a catchy song that helps you learn history. Abreviated and maybe not 100% accurate but at least you remember something right. To help you out, here are the lyrics to help you sing along. TOUR GUIDE: To your left, folks, is the Washington Monument, to your right, the White House. And over there, just beyond the Capitol, is the National Debt! TOURISTS: Oooo! Wow! There’s something huge Red, white, and blue That’s grazing in DC It’s gobbling up the taxes That are paid by you and me It doesn’t seem to notice We really can’t afford The billions that it’s costing us To pay its room and board It doesn’t roam But seems content To dwell on Capitol Hill As long as trucks keep pulling up With tons of green-back bills We’ve got to feed the big guy We really can’t forget It has an awesome appetite Tyrannosaurus Debt TOUR GUIDE: The debt was born in 1790 when our new government took over 75 million the colonies spent in the Revolutionary War. We’ve got to feed the monster So it doesn’t get upset It’s got an awesome appetite Tyrannosaurus Debt TOUR GUIDE: Alexander Hamilton, our first Secretary of the Treasury (he’s on the 10, you know), wanted a federal debt to provide a reason to establish taxes to support our new nation. The debt was young, they kept it small They didn’t know back then In 1812 another war would make it grow again By ’66 the Civil War had cost …
School House Rocks – Tyrannosaurus Debt
June 18, 2011
NOw the National debt’s foot is the size of the white house.
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@illyounotme Tbh, Obama did add the debt up at a faster rate than Bush did. I still dislike the two for the largest debt increments for any term, in nominal value.
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@illyounotme for one Bush did’nt have to ask congress to declare war because when they voted they ALL agreed for war. Tax cuts where made to help the average Americans in a tuff times. So if you blame Bush for debt you might as well blame a goldfish and it would make just as much scene, also Obama hasn’t done anything he promised and has even went against a few and not to mention when he bowed to china’s leader.
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@illyounotme too bad you numbers don’t match the OMB’s 2012 Budget Historical tables percentages.
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I showed this to my three year old brother and now he wants to go to D.C. to see the “big dino”
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Reagan overspent by about a trillion per term in office. So did Bush the Elder.
And so did Clinton, though this tends to get ignored by those who focus only on the surplus he created during his last quarter in office — with a Republican-majority House. He’d been spending the same as his predecessors when the Dems were in. Then Bush the Younger threw out all that progress with massive overspending…
…and Obama has now outspent all previous Presidents combined.
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if tyrannosaurus debt was real it would be bigger than america it’s self now. When will congress see that enoughs enough they need to make our buget balence.
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@mv22199 I agree
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Clinton-got a surplus and promised to rid the national debt by 2010
bush comes along…………starts 2 wars then obama starts a third one and 14 trillion dollars later were back where we started we needa get the fuck out of Lybia, Afganistan, and Iraq. quit being stingy and pay more taxes fuck do something washington………………..
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The more we overspend, the hungrier this big fella gets.
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@illyounotme TY, that explains things… as I have no spawn. =)
THAT I KNOW OF! =:O
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@EconAtheist This one was from the new Schoolhouse Rocks that started back up in the 90′s. When the kids who grew up with School house Rocks were having kids of their own and the School House Rocks started to come back.
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I don’t remember this one ever being played during the early ’70s. Must’ve been made during the Reagan administration, when we went from being the greatest creditor nation on the planet to the greatest debtor nation on the planet. That dickhole is responsible for ruining the nation: Dubya merely finished the job Braindead McJellybelly started.
Reagan: Worst. President. Ever.
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@Alexanddria:Manufacturing and jobs are the only things that cut the deficit..unfortunately, there is nothing (no other commodity on earth) that gets the rich more money than war, all they have to do is focus voters attention onto things like social security and medicare…then they set up a false incident to make people angry enough to yell for war, they can tell who all fell for by setting up sites to let people talk those that talk about social security, medicare and entitlements fell for it.
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@mv22199 I was was born in the US and didn’t see this till I was an adult. Sorry to tell you this but any child who saw this would not be old enough to run for President.
There is plenty of proof Obama was born in the US, and no proof he wasn’t. Sorry but that is the truth. I personally don’t care for Obama, but I don’t get fooled by false Birther arguments. Not to mention, the big cause of the debt was, not Obama but Bush. With unpaid for wars, tax cuts, medicare D.
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this video is further proof that Obama was not born in America. Every kid growing up in the USA saw this every Saturday morning. The way this guy spends money there is no way he ever say this.
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ha ha. the bill runs away at the end. XD
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Nowadays everybody would be happy if the debt were $ 5 trillion…
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Next revision should add a shot of us waving good bye to the dollar….as the World Reserve Currency!
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INSERT RANDOM COMMENT ABOUT GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY THEORIES HERE
Guys, it’s a kids’ cartoon. Calm the fuck down.
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@Alexanddria Honestly I don’t think we can any more. I think the politicians have no real wish to either. It seems to me they are working to destroy the US economy so we will be forced to accept a North American Union like the EU. Personally I think the only way to destroy the corruption of both Dems and Reps is to dissolve the Union and let the states secede and start their own countries. Smaller more regional governments respond to the peoples wishes more instead of Corporate masters.
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@IwillKillYourCereal Or go back and tel the government to to not spend money we don’t have on wars we don’t need since the majority of the debt comes from war debt.
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If only we could go back in time and tell the government not to spend the money being paid in to the social security program on useless crap
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Okay…then how do we cut it? More taxes? Less spending? I’m confused.
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@hikerstephen They also used blood-letting to cure disease but nobody is advocating that in 2011.
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