The government's fiscal year begins today so, in the spirit of the new year, let's take stock of our fiscal accomplishments over the past year, I present some facts and figures courtesy of The Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget (via Hit and Run ):

• $1,650,971,205,167 added to the national debt, bringing the total to $7.5 trillion.

• 99 banks taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Company.

• 684 banks receiving support from the Troubled Asset Relief Program that doesn't buy troubled assets.

• 11.2 percent: the percentage of the federal deficit to GDP. This is the highest that ratio has been since Japan surrendered in 1945.

• $164 billion spent out of the entire $787 billion in stimulus funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Most of this has gone to Medicaid, unemployment and the Making Work Pay Tax Credit.