Last month, I posted a video that put President Obama’s proposed budget in context by presenting it in video as a 1/4-cent budget cut from a pile of 10,000 pennies. The creator of that video is back with two more budgetary math lessons that real people can understand.

The first examines Obama’s vow to cut $17 billion from the budget — a pittance of the $3.5 trillion he hopes to spend next year.

The second video takes taxpayers on a national debt road trip through history to illustrate how relatively little progress we made under every president from 1900 through 2009 when compared with the fiscal journey Obama has planned through 2016.

If the idea of driving halfway across the country at 174 miles per hour nonstop is your idea of fun, you’ll like the upcoming joy ride on the taxpayer dime. But you won’t enjoy being stuck in California when it’s over. Ironically, the Golden State isn’t so golden these days. It’s on the verge of bankruptcy and begging for a federal bailout.

The road trip is posted on a new blog called Political Math. Bookmark that blog, all you rednecks in search of enlightenment. Or if you prefer Twitter, start following @PoliticalMath.