I'm getting concerned that an agreement will be reached on a budget extension before the Federal government closes down due to lack of funding. Because, if there's no shutdown, an opportunity will be lost to illustrate that it doesn't matter to the citizenry whether the government operates or not.
The government's sort of like your appendix. It's there, but nobody notices because it doesn't do anything at all. And the only time you're aware of it is when, for whatever reason, it makes you sick. So, in that way the government's pretty much the same. It goes on year after year doing nothing beneficial, nobody except political junkies care if it's there or not, and then all of a sudden it does something that makes you want to throw up.
At the moment however, the government's in the headlines because of two matters where it's bleeding taxpayers dry and it's actions are beyond despicable. On one hand, unions have been allowed for years to collective bargain, and in that way they've escalated their compensation packages to an extent that more than twenty states have gone broke. And at present, these unions want more.
Simultaneously, while 20% of the population is un or under-employed, and helpless folks are watching their real estate values sink through the floor due to government having artificially manipulated the market, oil prices are climbing out of sight. So, a nation that's presently more than 14 trillion dollars in debt is going to have a huge portion of its remaining wealth stolen by foreigners. It's almost impossible to imagine that those elected to serve the country and its citizens could sit back and allow this to happen. But they did!!!
I for one hope the Middle East blows itself off the map in civil wars, because not only would it be no great loss, it would likely be quite beneficial to the rest of the globe. But, at the same time I hope our "leaders" wake up and realize the time for pandering to moronic political bases can't be afforded anymore, and let the good guys right here at home start drilling for our huge resources of oil.
That's it for today folks.
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