You dared suggest to our rulers they spend LESS than they take in?!
Where did you get your economics degree, SIR? From balancing a checkbook? Oh, wait.... /s
I hosted a dinner class a couple of years ago for my clients, most of whom are doctors, on budgeting and finance and how to read, understand and use a financial statement. Sent an invite to Cornyn and Olson to join us. Didn’t even receive an acknowledgement from them, although did have a couple of local politicians and their wives join us. Interesting evening. Just amazed that so many of them had lived all these years without having a budget. Absolutely none of them had ever involved their children in the family budget process but all readily acknowledged that doing so would help them prepare for adulthood.
For a while after that I was bombarded with questions about their monthly financial reports but they have stopped asking and are generally back to their old habits. Seems difficult for some people to make a lifelong commitment to the financial part of their life.