The Contented Cow

I.O.U.S.A.

“America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.”

Say what? We just got control of the country and now we gotta stop the spending? Baby, we got a contract. We got promises and we got dreams. Lets get out that credit card and start spending the way WE were promised.

We’ve been warned before about the fact that democracies fail once people start voting themselves goodies from the treasury. The urge and imperative to spend money to buy votes (health care, social programs, who can say no?) overwhelms the pitiful cries of the people who will eventually have to pay for those goodies (how’s that for a novel “what about the children?” appeal?).

We will watch the trailer, maybe even the 30-minute version of the movie that’s doing for the national debt what “An Inconvenient Truth” did for global climate change. Of course, just as the with the weather, we seem to only be able to talk about it.

So we will, at the next, Politics and a Pint.

Details:

What: Lively but civil discourse
Where: Contented Cow
When: 6-7:30PM, Sunday, 18 Jan 2009
Who: everyone