Senator Charles Schumer wants President Obama to pick up Tab

Good to see you too Marlin.  I look forward with great joy to our inevitable sparring. 

I know that some will attribute this to my liberal leanings, but, here's my bottom line:

I have absolutely no confidence and therefore no concern in our money.  The dollar is a note. It is not currency; it is a promise to pay.  Pay what?  Not gold, silver or even copper.

Money has meaning because we say that is does.  Watch your bank account.  If you're like me you barely carry money anymore.  So I watch a column of figures go up and down and that's it.

I think Schumer probably understands that, and so to him and other of the folks in Washington, it's not even a real thing anymore, "a billion here a billion there" kind of mentality.

When you realize that a large portion of our national debt (debt not deficit) is money we have "borrowed from ourselves" ... you begin to understand that we're really just playing with the equivalent of Monopoly money.  

It's not real.  That doesn't mean it's not important.