The One Month Anniversary of Holding the World Hostage
Hooray. Congressional Republicans are holding their ground. Horray. Congressional Republicans are trying to address the budget deficit. Hooray. Congressional Republicans are staying the course. Hooray. Congressional Republicans course is right off a cliff!
Welcome to the one month anniversary of the the United States Congress taking the United States budget, government and the American public hostage. Welcome to the celebration of the future of payments to the military, seniors, and veterans being held up almost at gun point. Welcome to the culmination of Congressional craziness that is the American government.
Welcome to the Festival of Financial Frivolity!
With only a few days to go before the United States has to decide who to pay and not to pay, the Republicans are sticking to their guns. But then again they do support those guns so why shouldn’t they stick to them.
In reality I don’t blame just the Republicans. After all, both parties have been driving this crazy train toward some type of disaster or another for decades. So what’s one more.
I wish I could be optimistic about a resolution to this hostage crisis. But like most hostage crises, there are almost always casualties. So far, the casualties in this crisis are just the loss of faith in the United States government as a stable and reliable debtor. Yep, even though we have not bounced the first check, the cost of doing business, ie loan servicing, has gone up. And that effect, even if it is seemingly short term, will actually add to the debt they are trying to tackle.
At this point, I pray for a successful and realistic end to the hostage negotiations. However, with the way Washington runs and the fact that both Speaker McCarthy and the White House have very little wiggle room or political capital, my hope is smothered in reality. That reality is that this Festival of Financial Frivolity is just another reason to wonder is this the best we can do? If so, we’re screwed. If not, when can we get real leadership in Washington? Ok, we are screwed.
So as I keep saying, bring on the popcorn. We all might as well enjoy watching the train wreck as it goes over the cliff. Maybe someone will save the last passenger as the train crashed into the ravine. Maybe for once, since there are no heroes in this story, the train just crashes and burns.