Posted on 02/09/2024 11:54:27 AM PST by Twotone
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As questions continue to mount regarding the lack of fiscal responsibility exercised by lawmakers, U.S. Senators said they are not super worried about running up the national debt since most of them will die of natural causes in the next year or so.
"Yeah, we're not too concerned about it," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "If any of us were in any position to be alive when it comes time to pay the piper, we might do things a bit differently. As things stand now, most of us have one foot in the grave already, so we're just going to keep tossing away the country's future. By the time things get really bad, we'll be out of here."
When asked about Congress's ongoing willingness to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to other countries while the national debt continues to climb to an astronomical level, legislators expressed no concern about the country's financial future, citing the unlikelihood of any of them still being alive when the economy completely collapses under the weight of its crushing debt.
McConnell's colleagues of advanced age seconded his assessment. "Why should we be worried about the future?" asked 90-year-old Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. "The future? Are you kidding me? I'll be lucky to make it to dinner tonight."
At publishing time, senators refused to comment further on the national debt crisis as they all rushed off to a meeting to plan a $480 million 81st birthday party for Idaho Senator Jim Risch.
Don’t limit this to Senators. Most of America is OK with running up the debt because they don’t really see the effect of it. At some point, there kids or grandkids will be harmed. But they’ll be dead by then.
Not even satire...
And they are also stashing away tons of taxpayer funds that they have enriched their families with to insulate them form the coming reckoning.
This was Keynes’ rationale.
Runaway inflation won’t be a problem for the politicians who are gaming the system for their own personal wealth. The buying power of money could halve, while at the same time their net worth would triple or more.
Humor has to have truth to it, twisted in a unique perspective to get a laugh instead of anger.
Tnis one might have maybe too much truth in it to be as funny as other jokes are.
Your successors and heirs will damn you to hell, but hey, you’re already dead so it doesn’t matter. You don’t believe in eternal life anyway.
That insulating strategy didn’t work out too well for the elites of the Old South after the Civil War, or for the elites in Eastern Europe after first the Nazis and then the Soviets invaded.
Our political leadership makes the old fossilized Soviet Politburo look like a crew of young wipper snappers.
Sounds like Mitch and Schumer... and the rest of the scum.
We’ve been waiting decades for a mass die off and it never happens!
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