Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

This quip parodies the Beatitudes (“Blessed are the meek…”) to make a pointed political-economic complaint: public borrowing and fiscal mismanagement shift today’s costs onto tomorrow’s citizens. By blessing “the young,” the line highlights the irony that those least responsible for creating deficits will be the ones forced to service them through taxes, inflation, or reduced public services. The joke’s bite comes from treating an ominous inheritance—national debt—as if it were a promised reward, underscoring intergenerational inequity and the moral dimension often attached to government finance debates.