I started to be frightened that when I grew up the United States wouldn't be a great place to live, or wouldn't have as much impact internationally as it used to. I wanted to try to figure out what was going on. I wanted to write something that showed people how the government spends their money, and also illustrate the problem of the deficit because there was increasing interest. People need to know how it affects their everyday life. There really wasn't anything out there that was written for the average person to pick up and read.
Any citizen can call and get a wealth of information from the government.
It's hard to read, sometimes. Maybe you'll get a report that's 300 or 400 hundred pages long. I wanted to show people that they are very much affected by what the government does. Because of that, they should take action and be good voters and good citizens. You hear from politicians that we give lots of money to other countries, it's bankrupting America.