Of Course, It Has Never Paid Much.

Economist Frederick Thayer Has Studied The History Of Our Balanced-budget Crusades And Has Come Up With Some Depressing Statistics. We Have Had Six Major Depressions In Our History (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 And 1929); All Six Of Them Followed Sustained Periods Of Reducing The National Debt. We Have Had Almost Chronic Deficits Since The 1930s, And There Has Been No Depression Since Then - The Longest Crash-free Period In Our History.

You Can't Ignore Politics, No Matter How Much You'd Like To.

You Could Probably Prove, By Judicious Use Of Logarithms And Congruent Triangles, That Real Life Is A Lot More Like Soap Opera Than Most People Will Admit.

What We Have Here, Fellow Citizens, Is A Crassly Egocentric, Raving Twit.

Naturally, When It Comes To Voting, We In Texas Are Accustomed To Discerning That Fine Hair’s-breadth Worth Of Difference That Makes One Hopeless Dipstick Slightly Less Awful Than The Other. But It Does Raise The Question: Why Bother?