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Originally Posted by Maki
While the two men were in France, John Adams was moved to comment in letters to his wife on Jefferson's reckless personal spending habits. His financial incompetence came to haunt him in later life -- he tried to raffle off Monticello before he died to pay off his debts.
At a time when finance and the economy play such a large part in the public discourse, it pays to keep in mind that Jefferson, like many great men, was gifted, but also tragically flawed.
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....and KNEW better than he DID. Like many in Congress----on a one-on -one basis, most of them are fine, upstanding people. But when you put them in a group, the mod mentality takes over, and even common sense becomes rare, and people convince themselves that things that KNOW are wrong, are somehow right.