THREE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT DOLLARS AND SIXTY CENTS. Your money, well spent on President Obama’s Christmas vacation.

To put a little bright-side spin on the number, that’s equal to about a 2-1/2 minute increase in the national debt. Not the national debt itself; the increase in the national debt.

Who’s not willing to grant the President 2-1/2 minutes of national debt increase for his annual vacation?

Oh, by the way, each of us mere citizens spent an average of 169 milliseconds of the increase. (For the record, I’m cheap; I only spent about 25 milliseconds.)