http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/26/beck.deficit/index.html

The $53 trillion asteroid

Realizing that Americans have become pretty much numb to these kinds of
ridiculous sounding proposals, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tried to
up the ante this week. "Without change," he said, "Rising costs will drive
government spending to unprecedented levels, consume nearly all projected
federal revenues, and threaten America's future prosperity."