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To: TimF who wrote (741076)9/22/2013 2:37:31 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1576600
 
>> but only for the reasons Adam Smith expressed when he said "there’s a “great deal of ruin in a nation.”

There is when the nation is the greatest economic power and therefore can borrow money, ostensibly, without bound. I just don't know that the deficits we're facing over the next 40 years are within our borrowing ability. Maybe, but it will vastly impact US standards of living.