Byline: JOHN BALZAR
OK, partisans, let's talk about prudence. Granted, it's an idea not much in fashion anymore. Too many cheery Madison Avenue slogans about ``just going for it,'' I suppose. Too many Hollywood heroes who never pay for the cars they crash in their daredevil escapades.
Which leaves us with too few leaders who see any possible advantage to prudence anymore.
``We will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations.'' For a quick second, I thought George W. Bush just might be audacious enough to propose that we live within our means.
Hardly.
In this State of the Union address, Bush delivered the now-perfunctory needle to …
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