16 June 2008

Ross Perot is Back

...with his infamous charts, demonstrating the fiscal straights this country is in:
 
Notice how the debt was actually going down there during Clinton, and so modest in retrospect during Carter, and the steepest rise when the GOP had control of Congress and the Presidency...

In his Father's Day speech Sunday Obama talked a lot about responsibility and sacrifice. I like that. We shouldn't be living beyond our means. It is a sickness to expect something for nothing or to expect that some one else will pay our bills.

2 comments:

5chw4r7z said...

"It is a sickness to expect something for nothing or to expect that some one else will pay our bills."

Amen.

Jason said...

Nice post, I agree. That is something I'm working on with my own life. It would be interesting to see how Europeans compare to us with their level of debt over the years. My guess is that they are quite a bit more responsible than most Americans.