http://www.jrganymede.com/2009/06/09/anatomy-of-a-deficit/ We endeavor to give satisfaction Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:20:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jrganymede.com/2009/06/09/anatomy-of-a-deficit/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 John Mansfield Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:38:38 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=721#comment-1662 Last week, our family walked across the Boulder Dam, and the boys asked why it was built. I rattled off its three purposes: flood control, water storage, and electricity generation. Then, my wife added a fourth: job creation during the Great Depression. I had already been feeling a little low contemplating the fallen state of contemporary society, that feats accomplished two generations ago are beyond our capability now, so I moodily mused "We won't be getting any Boulder Dams out of the current round of stimulus spending." And we won't. Twenty years from, we won't be able to point to anything and say "That's what we did with that money." There certainly won't be anything so awesome and solid as the Boulder Dam left to remind our great-grandchildren in 70 years that we were a capable people. Last week, our family walked across the Boulder Dam, and the boys asked why it was built. I rattled off its three purposes: flood control, water storage, and electricity generation. Then, my wife added a fourth: job creation during the Great Depression. I had already been feeling a little low contemplating the fallen state of contemporary society, that feats accomplished two generations ago are beyond our capability now, so I moodily mused “We won’t be getting any Boulder Dams out of the current round of stimulus spending.” And we won’t. Twenty years from, we won’t be able to point to anything and say “That’s what we did with that money.” There certainly won’t be anything so awesome and solid as the Boulder Dam left to remind our great-grandchildren in 70 years that we were a capable people.

]]> http://www.jrganymede.com/2009/06/09/anatomy-of-a-deficit/comment-page-1/#comment-1649 gst Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:38:34 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=721#comment-1649 TOTUS puts the Great Pyramids in perspective: http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/2009/06/builder-in-chief.html TOTUS puts the Great Pyramids in perspective: http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/2009/06/builder-in-chief.html

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