Well, we got our debt-limit increase.
It’s a fantastic piece of legislation: it starts right off by “saving” almost a trillion dollars over the next ten years. (We’ll borrow that much in the next nine months, but hey: politics is the “art of the possible”.)
Next, I think we should take care of the drunk-driving problem by raising the blood-alcohol limit.
Anyway, soon we’ll have a brand-new deficit-reduction commission working hard to find ways to cut a little fat. (Of course we’ve had 17 of these in the last 30 years, during which period US government spending, in constant dollars, has more than doubled. But if at first you don’t succeed…)
They shouldn’t have much trouble finding places where the federal government’s looking a little zaftig — but just to get them in the right mood, they might like to read this.
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A sad day for America.