Three weeks time, actually, with a little luck. Enough time that it might actually be over then (And I meant that as something of a joke - catastrophic world ending DOOM fallowed by something as insignificant as a single person's holiday. In the end, there was a real risk of somebody taking it seriously).
Either way, nobody is covering themselves in glory.
Anyway. A more polite version of what I posted - because I was busy retyping it when you posted.
Whether the ACA is a crock or not.... clearly enough people want it to happen to elect someone to high office running on a platform of making it happen. Maybe in a few years you can act smug and say 'I told you so' as the whole thing falls apart, maybe not. Sometimes you've got to let the people risk fucking up - that's democracy. Whatever happens, regardless of the merits of proposed balanced budgets and the like, acceding to any demands at this stage would set a dangerous precedent and validate the gun-to-the-economy tactics that ultimately endanger the economy as a whole going forward. It's the tactics that're appalling to me, as opposed to the message - I do get it on a level.
Especially when you consider that, right now, the US makes a net profit on each bond it issues. With inflation accounted for, the bondholder gets back less value than what they put in. The reason this happens is because -thus far - America has always paid. If that changes, then the national debt will become a problem.... right now, it's an easy-money racket.
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Either way, nobody is covering themselves in glory.
Anyway. A more polite version of what I posted - because I was busy retyping it when you posted.
Whether the ACA is a crock or not.... clearly enough people want it to happen to elect someone to high office running on a platform of making it happen. Maybe in a few years you can act smug and say 'I told you so' as the whole thing falls apart, maybe not. Sometimes you've got to let the people risk fucking up - that's democracy. Whatever happens, regardless of the merits of proposed balanced budgets and the like, acceding to any demands at this stage would set a dangerous precedent and validate the gun-to-the-economy tactics that ultimately endanger the economy as a whole going forward. It's the tactics that're appalling to me, as opposed to the message - I do get it on a level.
Especially when you consider that, right now, the US makes a net profit on each bond it issues. With inflation accounted for, the bondholder gets back less value than what they put in. The reason this happens is because -thus far - America has always paid. If that changes, then the national debt will become a problem.... right now, it's an easy-money racket.
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