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Ignoring the U.S. debt problem won’t wash it away

By Philip Klein
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Ignoring the U.S. debt problem won’t wash it away

There are few characteristics of human nature that are more immutable than the tendency to be focused on the short term.

And just like a heart patient straying from his diet as time passes after his heart attack, the political class has collectively decided to tune out the federal debt as an issue.

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