Nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, Benjamin Franklin observed that it is “better to go to bed supperless than wake up in debt.” During the past four and a half years of the Bush administration, the American people have bought supper on credit and supersized the debt left to their children. On May 11, with scarcely a peep from Congress, President George W. Bu (...)
Editorial
Deficit Blues
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