A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.