Cotton-Candy Fantasies

But better fantasies than realities, don't you think?

Please remember, Michelle, that the soldiers at Iwo Jima were there courtesy of the U.S. Federal Government, and courtesy of a mid-20th-Century American citizenry that (sensibly for the time) chose Remarkably-High Taxation rather than Remarkably-High Debt.

We could have Low Debt today, if we chose to tax ourselves at a rate commensurate with our spending. Oddly enough, though, everyone in Washington, D.C., yourself included, does not see that necessity. And there are reasons for that, too. For different reasons, everyone ends up on the same page and chooses Big Debt. It's the reasonable way out, too. It's the American Way! But that's reality: for today, I prefer fantasies.