Comment: We would have to rollback to 1835.

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We would have to rollback to 1835.

For the first time in history the US government had no foreign debtors.

That lasted almost 40 years when Lincoln's War against South Independence drove the US to bankruptcy and sending Congress to beg foreign investors for help.

David Hume died before the Dclaration of Independence was published. He predicted failure if ideology trumped personal liberty and individual responsibility.

Like Von Mises saw the eventual failure of socialism, Hume saw the poetential for the failings of liberty. What did Hume see?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SLlpu...

Free includes debt-free!