Do not pass problems onto the next generation - as in the National Debt?

[papau]

A DUer KingCoal posted that

A million seconds ago: A little over eleven days ago.

A billion seconds ago: Around 1968.

A trillion seconds ago: Around 30 B.C.

and asked "Shouldn't we start paying on the $7 trillion?"

I think this should be a Dem talking heads point tonight.

Indeed the media will not ever say how stupid Bush's line about "not passing problems on to the next generation" is. :-(

A Dem must step up and point out how our National Debt growth under Bush is indeed passing problems onto the next generation.

[ramapo]

1. There's a list of neglected issues

These have already been passed on at least once:

1. Energy Independence

2. Environmental degradation

3. Health Care

4. Urban Renewal

5. Efficient Transportation

6. Poverty/Homelessness/Hunger

The National Debt is a relatively new problem, at least in terms of it's size. It's funny how the sized debt that Reagan railed against as a sin would be welcome today while our current situation is now passed off by the Repubs as essentially meaningless.

[blm]

2. That's what I said to my local paper. Gut SS while racking up HUGE deficit

in the name of protecting the children's savings makes NO SENSE.

[papau]

4. Well said! :-)

:-)

[Salviati]

3. actually, a trillion seconds ago is more like 30,000 bc

1*10^12 / Pi*10^7
(Pi*10^7 is a really good approximation for the number of seconds in a year)

[papau]

5. Thanks for the heads up - a trillion seconds ago as a movie title

- nah-

I like "30,000 BC" as a title - but 1940's "One Million B.C." was a childhood favorite!