TDIH: Jefferson on Spending
Public funds should not be spent on "unexplained projects," he says.
On this day in 1808, Thomas Jefferson writes a letter. "[T]he same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects," he notes, "forbids it in the dispensation of the public monies."
"Unexplained projects." Yikes. What would he say if he could see us today?
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Thank you Tara. My theory is that we don't really have global warming, it is our founding fathers watching today's politicians.
He would 💩 his trousers! 😆