Captain Obvious, President Obama, and our unsustainable debt.

Herself of Maenianum Secundum categorizes her response to President Obama’s recent comments about our ‘unsustainable‘ debt load as ‘Captain Obvious‘:

Solution: Stop spending and then we won’t need to borrow any more money.

You’d think that it would be a Captain Obvious moment, wouldn’t you?  Alas, my own (depressing) experience has shown me that there’s a whole list of things that people should know, but don’t know, because everybody who could have told them had assumed that it was already common knowledge.  So, here goes:

Spending more money than you have is a bad idea.  You will eventually need to find a way to pay it all off, and all of the ways of doing so are deliberately designed to be not fun.

So, don’t do that.

As I said: depressing that this is necessary.

Moe Lane

PS: Honestly, if I had the money I’d send a copy of How Much Is a Million? to every freaking member of Congress and the White House. I suspect that part of the problem is that they don’t conceptualize the money being tossed around.

Crossposted to RedState.

This week’s book: How Much is a Million?

As you can see, I have swapped out How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion for a new book:

…which is because of an idea that Pat Cleary had: to wit, that since our government obviously doesn’t have any concept of what a million really means we might as well educate them. First linked to here: again Congressional addresses here; Senatorial ones here; and, of course, the President lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC 20500.

Send Congress a copy of ‘How much is a million?’

How Much Is a Million? Only seven bucks, and goodness knows that it’s written at a level that even our most egregious Democratic spending artists will be able to comprehend by… the second or third reading, tops.

Congressional addresses here; Senatorial ones here; and, of course, the President lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (zip code is 20500, which is… odd, when you think about it. 00001 would have been cooler). Pat Cleary had this idea first, and I am so totally down with passing it along…

Crossposted at RedState.