Thomas Jefferson… 3rd President of the United States…Framer and Founder of our great nation said in his first inaugural address:
“…a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…”
In a letter to James Madison, Jefferson was concerned about national debt and “borrowing” from future generations:
“Then I say the earth belongs to each of these generations during it’s course, fully, and in their own right. The 2d. generation receives it [from the 1st.] clear of the debts and incumbrances of the 1st., the 3d. of the 2d. and so on. For if the 1st. could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not the living generation. Then no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of it’s own existence.”
Smart guy. I bet he’s flopping like a fish in his grave these days.
See, the folks who put this country together did so with with not a stroke of genius necessarily. Rather, I believe that did it with a hell of a lot of common sense.
Common sense is lost on the Democrats in Washington.
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