john adams

[IronWing]

He'd freak out knowing Government spends and rules indiscriminately into debt.

-John

Not really. One of his duties during the revolution and early years of the republic was to beg for loans from France and the Netherlands.

 

[Zorkorist]

Like I say, spinning in his grave.

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

There's a difference between begging for loans, and sometimes getting them and sometimes not, probably always repaying them, as opposed to just printing more and more money into debt with no hope of ever repaying it.

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

When those fantastic loans also allow Government to grow exponentially, capturing a great part of the Gross National Product, enabling a Police State, making it more expensive to live, because of lawyers, insurance companies, regulations and taxation, you begin to approach an untenable state.

-John

 

[norseamd]

He came up with the Sedition Act? Do I win a prize?

This being some of what I was reading was why I started the discussion.

 

[zinfamous]

He'd freak out knowing Government spends and rules indiscriminately into debt.

-John

Like I say, spinning in his grave.

-John

You're not very well-read. Adams was a yuuuuge proponent of a large and powerful centralized government that provides much to the people. The main reason that his bestie Tom Jefferson and himself had many spats.

 

[hal2kilo]

Like I say, spinning in his grave.

-John

Ah, this country has been in debt since it's inception.

Go back to balancing your checkbook.