A good friend of mine wrote this up today. I think it's a fantastic image of what Bush, Reagan, and Dubyah have done with the budget in the last 20 some years. You should note that the only president since Carter to lower the national debt (as a percent of GDP) was Clinton. Anyway, here is that post:

As of early this morning, the national debt is $10,028,587,281,302. That is such a disgustingly horrible amount of money that it really is impossible to even think about. So, I thought it would be interesting to put something like this into a different perspective.

The $1 bill is 0.51 feet in length. If you lined up $10,028,587,281,302 in a single row of $1 bills and aimed it toward the sky, it would reach 968,670,362 miles into space. The planet Saturn is about 820,000,000 miles away from Earth. So, the current national debt in $1 bills would extend 148,670,632 miles PAST Saturn.

Also, as of this morning, the national debt is increasing at about $2.76 billion a day. Using $1 bills again, that translates into an additional 266,591 miles of extended debt into the depths of our solar system per day. This is the best part: That number can be converted into 11,108 miles of $1 bills per hour. The speed of sound is 767 mph. If our nation's debt was being shot into space, it would be traveling 14.5 times the speed of sound. Mach 14.5!

One more little piece of trivia. The (dwarf) planet Pluto has a minimum distance of 2.7 billion miles away from Earth. Given the distance already traveled, the debt has 1,731,329,638 more miles to go to reach Pluto (which is about $18 trillion). At the CURRENT $2.76 billion increase per day, the national debt will reach Pluto and approach the edge of the solar system in the summer of 2026.

Oh!, these numbers DO NOT include the additional $700 billion that may or may not be added to the national debt as a part of the bailout plan.
Well spoken, Joshua. You're smarter than McCain would give you credit for.