The booklet explains the national debt as follows: As of July 31, 2007, the national debt, the sum total of all of our annual deficits, was $8.9 trillion. With a population of 302.6 million people, that works out to $29,500 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

That calculates as follows: Debt owed to the Public: $5.0 trillion and debt owed to Government trust funds $3.9 trillion. We owe $320 billion to Medicare, $1.9 trillion to Social Security and $857 billion for the retirement of Federal employees.

The Majority plans to borrow $454 billion next year to finance the Government. Of this, $202 billion will be financed by borrowing 100% of the Social Security Trust Fund surplus. In fact, over the next five years, the Federal Government will borrow $1.2 billion from the surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund. Of course, the booklet points out, when that money is needed to pay benefits, the Government either will be required to borrow more money or to raise taxes.

These figures might prove useful. The Tax Foundation reports that Americans will spend every dime of their first 70 days working for the Federal Government and an additional 41 days working for state and local governments. That means it would be May 1st before an employer could work for himself to spend 62 days for housing, 30 days for food and 13 days for clothing. Those figures merely are an average. In some states the figure is much higher.

In 2001 the Internal Revenue Code contained 1,685,000 words, 380 times that of the United States Constitution. Internal Revenue Service regulations contained 6,752,000 words, about 8 1/2 times the words in the King James Bible.

The Blunt booklet contains interesting information about eternal Federal programs, Federal regulations which stifle free enterprise, the looming entitlement crisis and much, much more. It is useful for every head of household, indeed every voter, to have around. In this era of remarkable technology, it will be possible to download in your browser the booklet by typing the web address mentioned above.

But I warn you, once you read and digest all of the data in the "Little Book of Big Government," you won't be able to put it down and moreover you will become part of the tax revolt in this country. You will demand that Congressmen and Senators cut back on government spending and your friends won't want to see you coming as you demand that they understand the looming entitlement crisis. What are friends for if not to bother them on issues!