Obi Wan Kenobi

America's sense of altruism has led us to deficit-spend on a level approaching a pyramid game at least since the years of FDR. Can't afford social programs? Pay for 'em twenty years down the road. Can't afford a military? Do it next year. And, as we've done for decades, we're gambling that a growing economy will reduce the impact

Brad and Samurai have claimed that the deficit is no big deal. It is a big deal. Please inform me where either Brad or I have claimed that the deficit is no big deal. Note that my statement refers to historical economic strategies in the USA and is hardly an

Come November, please remember that a vote for Bush is a vote for higher spending, higher taxes, bad fiscal policy, and hyperinflation. Still waiting for a rebuttal....... </T