CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller on Tuesday tweeted this interesting tidbit: “In the nearly 3 months since funding [was] restored to the Govt on Oct 17, the National Debt has increased $533-billion to $17.28-trillion.” Given Congress’ inability to articulate mathematics, we’ll present it another way: That’s $533,000,000,000 tacked on to the burden of future generations in just one quarter of the fiscal year. As devastating as Democrats claim the “shutdown” was, it pales in comparison to the federal government’s perpetual spending binge.