Yes indeed, matters of life and death, our values as well, were all on the balance beam at the weighing station before it could be stuffed into a sausage casing. That was ugly indeed. Of course I’m talking about the pornography of the debt ceiling performance. That was where any 10th grader, if given the Constitution to read, would have deduced that the clause about federal debt not ever being questioned, meaning all our debts will be honored, says exactly what it says. No annual vote is needed. You pass a federal budget and it will be honored, period.
How we got to this square dance of having a pro forma vote to simply follow what the document already states is beyond my comprehension.
On top of that, to have to try to shoehorn any and all wishes and desires of all and sundry wing nuts inhabiting our Congress makes the process all the more idiotic. No more need be said.
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Well put Mike. Too many people keep voting in clowns who know nothing and care less about good government.
Mike - one of your bests yet. Thank you.
Exactly...thanks Mike for your pragmatic insight.
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