The GOP convention hosts a debt clock.

The GOP unveiled, via Mitt Romney's Google+ page, a debt clock at the GOP convention.

So naturally, I wondered...

When President Obama starts sending hundreds of millions in federal aid (as requested by Republican governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana), will that debt be added to the clock, and will Mitt Romney and Republicans concurrently rap the cost of the debt?

I thought Republicans were supposed to be self-reliant folks, faithfully following the dogma espoused by their hero, Ayn Rand?  Yes?

An aside: Of course, the definition of self-reliance is highly dependent upon one's ability to overcome cognitive dissonance.  Watching this past week's Rock Center with Brian Williams' Mormons in America, I was taken aback somewhat, when a woman interviewed, receiving direct assistance from the LDS Church's food distribution center, praised the church's message of self-reliance.  To this woman, food stamps and job retraining as a means of charitable assistance, is necessarily bad, because it originates from centralized government.  But all it is, is displacing one institution (government) for another (religion).  Charity is charity is reliance on someone or some people is reliance on someone or some people.  In other words, Community is not a bad word.