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This is really for all as I read this incredibly bitter letter. I joined this forum and I have read some of the wittiest, incisive, and passionate posts ever, and I have been a veteran for 3 years on the Delphi forums. FreeRepublic and the Freepers welcomed me with open arms, and they are people who really walk the walk and not just talk the talk.

I always felt the "our debt is going to be paid by our grandchildren" jazz is an illegitimate argument, and one which all failed anti Bush and anti GOP invariably fall on. The main fact is that, "hello" A history lesson: President Andrew Jackson (okay he was a Democrat LOL) paid off the national debt in January of 1835. Now that was the ONLY period our nation was NOT IN THE RED. Every single year since has been deficit after deficit. The liberals act like Reagan invented the budget deficit and national debt. In fact, when George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton restructured the government's various debts into more or less what we are today in 1791, the national debt was $75 million bucks, or about $18 per person, given the population at that time. In fact, Hamilton saw the national debt as a great way to absorb the debts incurred by the the colonies (now states) during the Revolution, and also, and most importantly as a CLEVER device for creating capital for the new nation's growing industries.

Paying off the national debt does not automatically mean economic good times, because after Pres. Jackson did it, the country went into the longest recession in our country's history.