The debt accumulated by the gov't could easily be paid off by selling public lands. If any normal working person incurs debt and can't cover it with his income (or lack of it) he usually relies on selling assets to cover the debt.

1976, that's the year Orrin Hatch was first elected...and now he's whining about big federal debt? Did good ol' boy Orrin criticize the Republican budgets of the Bush era? I agree that Bush's billions don't begin to compare with Obama's trillions but I don't recall Orrin at the forefront of budget cutting back then. Since 1976 federal departments and agencies have exploded in scope and budget. Has Orrin been consistently opposing the regulatory expansion that forms the basis of federal authority since then? Is he opposing them now? OK Orrin what about taking a hard look at the EPA, Dept of Edu, FCC or the Dept of Anything and proposing legislation to roll back scope, regulation, and budgets of these massive bureaucracies? It's a nice...

I took English 101 during my first year at College. The professor, a woman, actually taught us how to write and understand the english language. So you can imagine my dismay when my boys went off to college and took courses that were supposed to be the equivalent of the english course I took. Their professors, also women, were dowdy, pasty face vegetarian environmental feminists who took more class time beating up on the male students rather than teaching the english language. Fortunately, my wife and I taught our kids to actually read not just for enjoyment but also for knowledge, a habit that they still practice. Mr. Hanson (one of my favorite authors; Carnage and Culture should be standard high school reading) is correct that...

With respect to Mr. Eastwood, it should be noted that it is the WW2 generation that perfected the juvenile idea that as a nation we can spend dollars we don't have and they are also the ones who raised all us "twits."