Notes to My Republican Neighbor

Steve Russell
8 min readJul 27, 2019
Which Way to the Polling Booth? I Got My Photo ID. Public Domain Image from Pixabay

Of Macroeconomics, Social Security, and the Reification of Government

You claim to be worried about the national debt.

You do not, however, conduct yourself as if the national debt were important.

I expect you voted for George W. Bush over Al Gore and, in that campaign, the primary issue was whether to use the prosperity of the Clinton years to pay down debt…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)