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oh come on! This is an OPINION PIECE, written by the Heritage Foundation, which is a CONSERVATIVE THINK TANK. How about some disclosure on HN?

• rbranson 17y ago
  Yeah, as soon as it started with the "dumped into the laps of our children" hyperbole I checked the source. No bueno.
  • wmeredith 17y ago
    Is there another way you would describe this sort of government spending?
    • alecco 17y ago
      Without rhetoric and hyperbole.
      • SamAtt 17y ago
        How is that statement rhetoric or hyperbole (which are both defined by their use of exaggeration)? Is there anyone (Republican or Democrat) who believes we'll be able to pay off the nation's debt in this generation?
        • 0x44 17y ago
          Of what generation are you speaking? There are large populations of at least five generations still living: the "Greatest", the "Boomers", "Gen X", the "Millennials", and then whatever they decide to call the kids born after 2003.
        • alecco 17y ago
          Appeal to emotion fallacy.
• billybob 17y ago
  Are the numbers opinionated?
  • dgabriel 17y ago
    Are the numbers cited and substantiated?
• SamAtt 17y ago
  I don't really see any opinion here. It's really just a statement of facts. Facts can be twisted to support an opinion but if that's the case you'd be better off pointing out where that happened not attacking the beliefs of the organization that created it. As for disclosure the end of the article states... "Brian Riedl is the Grover M. Hermann fellow in federal budgetary affairs at the Heritage Foundation." Followed by a copyright notice which again attributes the piece to the Heritage Foundation
• maukdaddy 17y ago
  Looks like HN has developed a downmod squad much like Reddit and Digg. So sad.