I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. H.L. Mencken
Although I should have long ago accepted this, it still amazes me that so many Americans take the debate over the debt ceiling seriously. The Federal Government does not obey the Constitution at all. The only limit on its power is the ideology of the people. As long as our government believes that they can get away with it, they will do it. War, fraud, bailouts, thousands of regulatory laws, whatever. Yet we are supposed to believe that this same government that obeys none of the laws created to limit it will suddenly collapse if the debt ceiling is not raised. Now all of a sudden a rule limiting the government matters. I even heard discussion this week on CNN about passing a balanced budget amendment. Really? Our government bans free speech, searches us freely without probable cause, threatens States who nullify federal laws, but we are supposed to believe that if a Balanced Budget Amendment were to pass, the government would suddenly obey this law.
Given that I took the red pill long ago, I do find some entertainment in the back and forth between Democrats and Republicans. The hyperbole from both sides about whom to blame, Boehner acting like a drama queen by ending the debt talks with the President, Democrats mad at the President for proposed spending cuts, talk of tax cuts and tax raises and closing tax loopholes, it just goes on and on. And many Americans wait with bated breath for Congress to "get is act together and cooperate so that we won't default on our obligations". This would be so much funnier if these people did not vote.
A people as gullible as Americans have no future - Paul Craig Roberts
Posted by: Redman | July 23, 2011 at 09:50 AM