We all must fight (once and for all and across the board) to elect fiscally prudent politicians like our Founders, those like Thomas Jefferson, who brought down the national deficit though making the Louisiana Purchase and engaging the U.S. in a war with Tripoli.Yes, if only we had a far-flung foreign war to fight and a pressing need to spend money in Louisiana, we'd be kickboxing the living daylights out of that pesky deficit.