Easy come, easy go ...

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“This is what each new generation of Americans needs to know, to understand, to absorb into their understanding what it means to live in a republic composed of separate and sovereign republics.

As this is written, millions of Americans are looking to the nation’s capitol and wondering what kind of man they have elected to be the 44th President of the United States and how the current Congress could so insanely burden the nation with enormous debt, piled upon an already existing one, because he deems these times to be ‘catastrophic’.

The current financial crisis would, economists tell us, have eventually resolved itself on its own. If Washington gave us a nation and Lincoln preserved the Union, then Obama has rendered future generations of Americans mere serfs, born with a vast debt the moment they first draw breath.”
 — Alan Caruba

In the present instance, I reference the idiomatic cliché "easy come, easy go," facetiously only in part. As millions of Americans surely know, the magnificent accomplishments of Washington and Lincoln were anything but easy. Efforts of creation and preservation against the chaotic forces of nature (the Second Law of Thermodynamics) are seldom easy.

Conversely, our presently constituted Democrat Federal Government mindlessly (neither the President nor any Senator nor any Congressman, nor anyone else for that matter, could possibly have read the 1,000+ pages of the "stimulus" bill in the time alloted for "deliberation") rammed through trillions of dollars of additional National debt (an incredible financial burden imposed on current and future generations of Americans), rolling it off their presses like "water off a duck's back".

This obamination of a legislative "accomplishment" will forever be etched in stone, though, I daresay, not the stone of Mount Rushmore.

Sculptures of Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln
represent the first 150 years of the history of the United States.