Show washington KNEW george washington saw our national credit sink to the vanishing point under the continental congress and saw it restored under the american constitution washington endured bitter days during the revolution when an army officers pay for a month would not buy a pair of boots he remembered how creditors hid to escape payment of debts in paper money and how a philadelphia joker plastered his dog with continentals Continent als and led the animal through the streets in a mocking procession when washington wrote his farewell address he also had seen value of our currency restored by the wise measures alexander hamilton adopted as our first secretary of treasury so washington knew what he was talking 9 about when he wrote in that farewell address As a very important source of strength and security cherish public credit one method of preserving ing lb it is to use it as sparingly as possible it be fine if our administration would adopt that policy instead of proposing budgets and deficits |