Good thing everything else — our current debt and all prior obligations — is free, and we have plenty of money available to fund anything under the sun. The rest of the world will loan funny money to us in perpetuity, and we’ll trade them our funny money for theirs, and we’ll all live happily ever after and eat chocolate chip cookies and tiramisu every night. And prosperity will reign, so long as we continue to “grow our economy” via wholesale debt creation.

Where does it stop? I thought the whole Iraq thing was stupid; I thought the bailouts of 2008-09 were stupid; I think the idea of for “higher ed for all” is stupid. I am wholeheartedly against stupid.

So now that the U.S. has money waiting to be allocated…

Because heaven knows paying back our debt — or even JUST STOPPING ADDING TO IT — is a ridiculous proposition, an idea to be brushed aside with obvious contempt and derision.

Also what do you think of those countries that offer higher education practically free to their citizens with no questions asked?

Mostly, I think that the road to “entitlement hell” (and eventual economic disruption) is paved with good intentions. It plays out that way, over and over again. But hey — if they’ve got the money to pay for it, more power to ‘em.

I wish I had the answers, but I don’t. All I know is that, simply, the “s*#t keeps getting piled deeper and deeper,” and there is no end in sight … because there can’t be. If the spending stops, GDP collapses. If the spending continues, we’ll just keep heading for the cliff, biding time until the rest of the world decides it no longer wants our paper. At that point, all bets are off.

Now that the precendent has been established, and all the entitlement groups well-entrenched, there won’t be an end to the bailouts. They’ll happen, in one form or another, for whatever groups step up and deliver either votes or politi-bucks back to the source.

The Federal Government and Colleges and University seem to be the most revered and trusted entities by the OWS crowd and it is precisely the actions of these two that have caused this issue.

So Michael (I think that’s the author’s name correct) what is an American to do if he finds that the government will bail out these people too? If the banks and financials, then the auto industry, then the “Studies” Crowd- (Womens Studies, Latino Studies, Norwegian Studies, etc.) – all get bailed out how will you demonstrate that your country no longer recognizes rule of law? Do we just have to keep coughing up the tax dollars to support every bad decision in the world? I do not have any answers. I will strongly argue against anyone condoning violence. But, really, what is one to do?