Meanwhile, the US Treasury has less cash on hand than numerous US corporations (list below).
Three things stand out to me reading this:
The conservative claim that the government is too big and taking over everything is nonsense. One could even claim that it's the Chinese who are doing so, and be more accurate.
The government has less money than Bank of America, JP Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, among others who actually had to be bailed out by the Treasury, who absorbed most of their toxic assets, as lobbied by these companies.
The numbers rebut Republican claims that the government has plenty of money to keep funding essential services while paying down its debt. And show that the conservatives really don't wish to pay down anything and think the government should not only be 30th on that list, but probably shouldn't exist (other than to fund banks, wars, and stop drugs, immigration, gays and abortions). It also belies GOP claims that companies are in need of lower corporate taxes without stipulation. American corporations have a record amount of cash even while the rest of us are stuck in a recession, they are just refusing to invest domestically while lobbying for tax breaks. They have all the money for themselves, and want even more.
This reminds me of what happened several times in history, from the Roman Empire, to Tsarist Russia, to the Weimar Republic. Where all the cash and goods were concentrated at the top, and everyone else lives were slowly drained to squalor. You'd think if no other reason some of these right wing people who think we need more money to the super wealthy and mega corporations, and less to the government, so this schism between the classes can continue to grow as the predators pray on those less fortunate would open up a history book at some point. It's going to be an interesting day when some of the working poor who believe they are conservative realize that corporations will not bail them out, nor help them in any way, and wish to take everything from them, or when the working poor liberals tolerance is broken, and they realize just how easy it is for them to attain firearms and other weapons.