Source: http://eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html . Remarks on the State of the Union Message, Key West, Florida, 1/5/1956 “In this connection, I should mention our enormous national debt. We must begin to make some payments on it if we are to avoid passing on to our children an impossible burden of debt.” Well folks, here we are nearly 60 years later with over $18 trillion in national debt and, like Greece, no desire to pay it.
Source: http://eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html . Remarks on the State of the Union Message, Key West, Florida, 1/5/1956 “In this connection, I should mention our enormous national debt. We must begin to make some payments on it if we are to avoid passing on to our children an impossible burden of debt.” Well folks, here we are nearly 60 years later with over $18 trillion in national debt and, like Greece, no desire to pay it.