Next generation won’t inherit the American dream

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Washington Times:

President George W. Bush was fond of saying that he would not be around when the real history of his administration was written. Whether that is true in the digital age is unclear. What is clear is that a president who leaves unfinished business to his successor — like a war or two — runs the risk that the history of his presidency may be written much sooner than he thinks, and written by those who were left the task of completing that unfinished business.

You might think President Obama would understand that pretty clearly, but he is making the same mistake. The history of his administration will be written almost immediately and perhaps even is being written now. This is because the president is in the process of bankrupting the nation and leaving it to his successor to sort it all out. As Lawrence H. Summers, one of the architects of his burning building, recently wrote: “The great economic questions for the next generation” will involve how to pay for the exploding costs of government. The president has made it abundantly clear that he has no intention of dealing with those questions himself. He will leave it to his successor and to the next generation.