[Wandatime]

Originally Posted by B767drvr

I'm confused. Are we selfish and have failed to invest in our country's future or have we overspent and over-invested in our future?

Is the "greatest generation" the greediest generation? Is that the assertion someone is suggesting?

Clearly, our nation's finances are on an unsustainable trajectory of ever-increasing debt. Is it immoral to ring up debt without any intention to repay it? Perhaps it's far more immoral to ring up debt, have no intention of repaying within your lifetime, but FORCE your debt to be repaid by your children, grandchildren and even those yet to be born.

If we can't begin to repay the debt we have now within a lifetime, how moral and reasonable is it to keep piling on more via expensive new programs of free tuition, etc…? When does the insanity stop? When do we stop kicking the debt can down the road? Do some not understand that we are enslaving future generations to a poorer quality of life to pay for our folly?

Both.