[zie]

Agreed, hence Congress is full of fiscal idiots. It's not new, Congress has been full of fiscal idiots for well over a decade.

[bryanlarsen]

> Congress has been full of fiscal idiots for well over a decade.

For well over 200 years. Compared to how Andrew Jackson destroyed the US economy, the current Congress is doing fairly well.

[zie]

I'm sure reasonable people could debate the timeframe ad-nauseum, but I think most people can agree, Congress in general has never been all that fiscally responsible.