One of the tropes we hear these days is that the “adults in the room” — that is, politicians who want the government’s debt ceiling raised and the borrowing and spending binge to continue — need to take control and “save” the country from the “children” who see that the status quo is unsustainable. In his column today, Sheldon Richman takes aim at that.
Especially sharp is his point that politicians take advantage of the ignorance of the typical citizen to expropriate him while pretending to be his friend. They’re clever con men who can get away with their frauds because when the government does it, it’s legal.
