"Stimulus," Slavery, and War

Extracted from my comments elsewhere in the blogosphere:

I've asked before, but I'll ask again: At what point will a younger generation rise up and refuse to pay off the debts of their parents? This spending bill is basically a gargantuan political handout to special interests. Think our kids are going to be okay with paying for that? I don't. Pretty vile that we're even considering dropping $1 trillion of debt on them over this, a bill that will almost certainly make the economy worse.

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Are other people feeling more and more like we're at the mercy of tyrants who feel entitled to confiscate whatever they want from us and spend it as they please? Tyrants who also feel entitled to nanny into every minute aspect of our lives? Tyrants we're supposed to be able to vote out but who have so protected themselves and co-opted the press that it's nearly impossible? This is not good.

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Currently, I think we're dooming our future generations to eventual war with whatever countries own most of the debt. There will come a point when the debt is a crushing burden, and people aren't going to like paying for a bunch of contracts that they never even agreed to. People aren't always going to stand for the explanation that, "Well, your parents made these deals, so you have to pay."

And what right do we have to sell future generations into slavery anyway? That's what it is, isn't it? We want all this stuff now, so we'll put the debt off on you people who will be forced to work it off for us. Abominable.