For What It’s Worth


How nine-year-olds feel about penalizing the innocent
December 19, 2008, 9:39 pm
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My nine-year-old brother (he’s the sixth in the series, by the way), on a government bailout:

That would be like N. and H. [neighbors] running into our wall and us saying, “Oh, that’s okay, just go and don’t worry about it,” and then taking from our other neighbors to repair the wall.

He realizes that this money has to come from somewhere, which means he’s smarter than most of Congress.