Notes to My Republican Neighbor
8 min readJul 27, 2019
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…