The Continuing Relevance of ‘Li’l Abner’
Commentary
What’s $4 trillion among friends?
Just a sop to distract Leviathan for a short while.
He’ll snaffle it down and then take a brief nap before waking up and demanding another snack.
This time it was a $4 trillion nip and tuck to the federal debt.
For decades, the people Americans have elected to govern have overspent for one overriding reason.
To keep themselves in power.
“We’ll spend now in order to give the punters free stuff (‘programs’) and worry about paying for it later.”
They figured that “later” would either never come or—what amounted to the same thing so far as they were concerned—would not come until they were out of office….