MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show September 22, 2021 01:05:00
Have kept that. it doesn't function as a barrier to our government spending money, obviously. it doesn't even keep us from spending rapaciously on wars. it gives congress something to do that they have to do every so often because the country economy will fling itself into a debt because nobody thought to stop this stupid thing we turned on in 1917 because we need to do placate people who felt bad that we changed our minds over entering that war. in the 100-plus years we've been saddled with this thing, it loomed larger and smaller depending on the decades, but in 1916 congress had to vote to ...