"[O]ne of [Barack Obama's] themes [in his inaugural speech], delicately implied, was that Americans do not just have a problem, they are a problem.

'The time has come,' he said pointedly, 'to set aside childish things.'

Things, presumably, such as the pandemic indiscipline that has produced a nation of households as overleveraged as is the government from which the householders insistently demand more goods and services than they are willing to pay for." --columnist George Will

Maybe it was a message to his Democrat collegues?

Actually the republicans could learn a few things about fiscal responsibility as well.

Democrats = Tax and spend liberals

Republicans = Borrow and spend liberals.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Neo....the context was that we are a young nation but it is time to set aside childish things. Context.

Actually, one of the reasons why we have a national debt going all the way back to the Carter administration is because Democrats were (and still are Tax, Borrow, and Spend-ers.

Everyone seems to think that the national debt started in 2001.

I knew it..It's that sumbitch Grover Cleveland's fault!!!