We are speeding toward an economic cliff, because our government can't practice restraint.
We spend so much more than we take in, because politicians, at every level, use the public treasury to win elections. The public mostly accepts lavish promises of more and more federal spending, because the cost of government has been so effectively divorced from what actually comes out of our paychecks.
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