Now, if we are going to bring forward billions of dollars of our children's money and invest it in rebuilding our economy, then we have both a moral and an economic responsibility to put that money to work on the long-term challenges facing our country that our children would otherwise inherit and have to deal with and pay for themselves. Every dollar that we borrow from them to get through the pandemic crisis is a dollar that they cannot spend getting through another crisis—like the climate crisis or the housing crisis; like the crisis in our rivers and our lakes, our oceans and in our forests; like the failing water pipes under our towns and in our cities; like our ever-expanding landfills; or the need for more and cleaner power to get us through to a zero-carbon economy.