Our Grandchildren's Prospects

All my life I've heard politicians draw our grandchildren like pistols. If we spend now, they say, our grandchildren will have to pay the bill later. Suppose we stop spending now. Do you think our grandchildren will benefit from that? What about our roads? Don't you think they'll have to spend to improve them then if we don't spend to improve them now? What about our schools? Don't you think they'll have to spend to improve them then if we don't spend to improve them now? Those are only two examples of why we should spend now to improve rather than leave it to our grandchildren to spend more to improve. If we spend now to help the unemployed, doesn't that help our grandchildren? If we spend now to create jobs, doesn't that help our grandchildren? If we spend now to help businesses create those jobs, doesn't that help our grandchildren? All my life I've also heard, "You must spend money to make money." Our economy is stalling because we refused to spend enough to rev it up. We must spend now. And we must spend a lot more than we've spent so far. We must spend now so our grandchildren won't have to spend a lot more later. We must spend now for our grandchildren's sake.