A tour guide was showing a tourist around Washington, D. C. The guide pointed out the place where George Washington supposedly threw a dollar across the Potomac River. "That's impossible," said the tourist. "No one could throw a coin that far!" "You have to remember," answered the tour guide. "A dollar went a lot farther in those days." This little bit of humor serves to point out the obvious: Our Congressional answer to the financial need in our economy is to print more money. Need more money for some entitlements? Don’t bother to cut costs in other areas, just print more money. Need money to bail out businesses whose failure is from greed and poor management? Print some more, all the while passing on the mounting debt to our progeny and theirs.