Yeah but we do this with everything. We borrow against our future selves with credit cards, and student loans, and mortgages. We borrow against future generatio

Yeah but we do this with everything. We borrow against our future selves with credit cards, and student loans, and mortgages. We borrow against future generations, in good times and bad, hence the massive national debt: in bad times borrowing softens the blow is the argument, and then in good times "it's your money not the government's" to argue for tax cuts and continue the borrowing. In the aggregate, we're a stupid short sighted self important primate. And the vast majority of that debt has gone toward blowing shit up, and maintaining the preeminent ability to blow shit up. But then we have scared little white old bunny rabbits who keep voting for scared fat white old bunny rabbits who talk about diplomacy being bullshit and turning the middle east into glass is the solution for our problems. It's a neurological disorder up and down the voting scale. So, surprising? Not at all.