Running a deficit in a recession (which may become a depression) is normal, and is pretty much unavoidable. And in many ways the government is the only one who can step in and pick up the slack from the private sector, which is hiding under the covers and balling its eyes out right now. We lost 68,000 jobs today. That is more than we lose in a month sometime.
Running huge deficits during good economic times is unacceptable. Even Clinton, one of your "tax and spend" liberals was able to run a surplus. 2007 was a great year financially, but Bush was setting record deficits.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
