Our national debt is now so high that most of us have stopped thinking about it, because the prospect of bringing it under control is unimaginable. We consider

In the late 18th century, a national debt was unthinkable; for Alexander Hamilton, it was an opportunity, & he made it forever a part of our government's fiscal

"Knott observes that Thomas Jefferson and his followers, and, later, Andrew Jackson and his adherents, tended to view Hamilton and his principles as "un-America