Can Governments Go Bankrupt

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SOMETHING is happening to government and to our faith in

government, after a generation of expectations in excess. With

the confidence of riches behind him, President Kennedy could

proclaim that the United States had infinite resources to spend

in pursuit of global aims. And President Johnson could launch

his war on poverty by assuring Americans that government had

"the abundance and the ability to free every man from hopeless

want." 1 The Viet Nam War also expressed this boundless con-

fidence of America s governors in an economy that could pro-

duce both more guns and more butter. The era climaxed with

the ultimate in technology: landing a man on the moon. Man s

control of matter was displ~yed before ~ universe. It was a

triumph of government as well as astroph)Tsics, driven by White

House ambitions and brought about by innovative bureaucrats