Cutting a 100 million a day, each and every day, saves 1 billion every 10 days or 36 billion per year. It will save 360 billion every 10 years. It will save 3.6 trillion every 100 years.

These figures replace doubt with certainty that the budget is out of control and that there is no-one in the Obama administration that knows the difference between a million, a billion or a trillion.

As they say in Vegas (or at least this is what I say when I'm in Vegas): anything is possible to those who can't count.