[Semper]

there are very promising indications that the intellectual battles these days are being won-often decisively won-by the friends of freedom and limited government, not by those who foolishly seek to put government in the driver's seat.

Right. I will be optimistic as soon as the national debt starts to decline.

[highlander_UW]

Right. I will be optimistic as soon as the national debt starts to decline.

While I agree that the author tried a bit too much to put a happy face on our prospects I am not so concerned about our national debt as many other factors. If we worked on the spending side as well as growth the debt would be a thing of the past. But our politicians never seem to see a pork project they don't love. If we, as Americans, made a real fuss about spending and refused to vote for politic ans that point to the pork they've brought to our states things might have a chance to be rosier.