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Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.