This Situation is The Result of Human Agency

From NPR comes US Government document from 2000 worrying about the US paying off its debt by 2012 and wondering what the Government could do with its excess cash. Imagine that. Had Bush not cut taxes and bombed Iraq, we might right now be in the midst of a sustained bout of publicly financed investments infrastructure, education, and, as some quaint old document or another put it, general welfare. Instead, we are where we are. It's almost like they did it on purpose to wreck the lives of the rest of us in the interests of . . . . Well it's not clear who benefits over the long haul from these policies. But still, some of the 1%ers are clear dumb enough to think that our current horror story is real American freedom at its best.