Sadly, you illustrate a lesson that must be first documented and then learned from. Some, who find the hard realities of this arithmetic a bit too at odds with

Sadly, you illustrate a lesson that must be first documented and then learned from. Some, who find the hard realities of this arithmetic a bit too at odds with their ideology, will fail to do either. Unfortunately, a lot of these folks are in the media, academia, and government. It's like the Great Leap Forward, but just replace homemade steel with public service, and massive starvation with massive debt.