Where's My Bailout? The Feeding Trough May Not Be Bottomless, After All

"Many years ago, when I was in business school, one of the courses was taught by George Cabot Lodge. He said he could remember distinctly the day in 1968 that it occurred to him that the US could not simultaneously end poverty, send a man to the moon, and fight a ground war in Asia, that there were limits to what the US could do."