Our children's debt

[realFedUp]

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. You can't have a nation out of debt.... it's not good for the economies of

those who hold that debt. The last thing you would want is a free people in a free land without the cloud of neverending debt over their heads, their children's heads and their grandchildren's heads. I wonder who is profitting from the national debt anyhoo.

[CrispyQ]

2. I don't know. The Chinese?

[physioex]

3. Ummm...

China. However I don't worry about the debt. After all 100K innocent Iraqi's and 1200 americans have been killed. Let's get the house in order first. Money is just money, lives cannot be replaced....

[Massacure]

4. "We need a president that can do more than one thing at a time."

John Kerry said that, remember?