Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget by David Wessel is a fascinating, though uniformly depressing survey of the state of the Federal Budget. Wessel has written an excellent, easy to understand book about the challenges our nation faces. He picks topics like the military, health care, and delves into specifics, and then explains the overall implications of the cost of government programs and on our massive, intractable debt.
Reading this book, it is easy to see how the US will become a second rate power if our indebtedness continue on this path, that is, unless we make some difficult choices. And as we all know, as a society and polity, we appear to be incapable to making hard decisions.
Reading this book, it is easy to see how the US will become a second rate power if our indebtedness continue on this path, that is, unless we make some difficult choices. And as we all know, as a society and polity, we appear to be incapable to making hard decisions.
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