But, of course, what isn’t paid for now is only paid for later, at a much higher cost. I will be amazed if the coming decade or two isn’t a period characterized by multiple and profound self-made catastrophes raging home in an amphetamine-stoked frenzy, each of them furiously seeking Mama, looking for a hug. That’s an embrace we surely won’t desire, but just as surely neither will we be able to avoid it.
We’ve been on a bender of exquisite proportions for thirty years now. We’ve done everything there is to do, to everyone there is to do it to, and more or less gotten away with it all. But now our creditors – literal and figurative – are lined up around the block, knives in their teeth, and they don’t look happy.
All I can say, America, is that I hope it was worth it.
I hope you enjoyed the free ride you took by offloading your woes on the rest of the world, including your own children.
I hope you feel good about yourself.
And I hope you liked your beer.
We’ve been on a bender of exquisite proportions for thirty years now. We’ve done everything there is to do, to everyone there is to do it to, and more or less gotten away with it all. But now our creditors – literal and figurative – are lined up around the block, knives in their teeth, and they don’t look happy.
All I can say, America, is that I hope it was worth it.
I hope you enjoyed the free ride you took by offloading your woes on the rest of the world, including your own children.
And I hope you liked your beer.
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