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"To preserve the independence of the people, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. Considering the general tendency to multiply offices and dependencies, and to increase expense to the ultimate term of burdenwhich the citizen can bear, may it never be seen here that, after leaving to labor the smallest portion of its earnings on which it can subsist, government shall itself consume the residue of what it was instituted to guard."-Thomas Jefferson
What do you think Mr. Jefferson saw during his time to elicit such a statement? Can we apply this statement to present societies, anywhere in the world? Is spending by a government be similar to or different from our own personal spending?