Posted on 06/04/2023 11:45:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Praise the Lord. The Republic is saved. We have a debt ceiling deal. The high-paid help in Washington finally exercised their 1st Amendment right and talked to each other. They hammered out a deal at the last minute. By the grace of God (or perhaps some other celestial from a warmer climate), the extinction-level event became a "near miss" rather than a Deep Impact.
Our fearless secretary of the Treasury has been taking "extraordinary measures" to extend the debt ceiling deadline since January of this year. But her ability to sell "the check's in the mail" to the debt collectors was running out. Without the debt ceiling deal, the federal government would have been forced to take more than "extraordinary measures." Extra-extraordinary measures would have been required — the seriousness of which was kept from the public to avoid panic.
The country always had enough dough to pay the vig on its debts. But there wasn't enough cash to make the loan payments and pay for everything else on Washington's shopping list. Luckily, with authorization to borrow more, we won't have to reduce our extraordinary spending to keep the debt collectors from hunting us down. Madame Secretary has been authorized to get some new credit cards (called U.S. bonds) to keep making the minimum payments on the old credit cards (also U.S. bonds). Problem solved — and without subjecting the subjects to the horrors of extra-extraordinary measures.
In recent months, we heard a lot about the approaching crisis, but we were never told what the extent of the damage could have been. They probably knew that we couldn't possibly have coped with such information. I can imagine the voice of Jack Nicholson in a smoke-filled room screaming, They can't handle the truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Department of Defense employs 950,000 people and funds countless contractors. They spend their time surrendering to lightly armed goat-herders, purging masculine toxicity from our warrior class, ensuring that new systems are not fielded until their technology is obsolete, and making multi-billion-dollar accounting errors.
The Department of Homeland Security employs 260,000 people. They mostly spend their time handing out welcome packages to illegal aliens and providing travel vouchers to their preferred destination.
The Department of Justice employs 115,000 people. They are perhaps the busiest people in government service. They are prosecuting the guy who put his feet on San Fran Nan's desk, tracking down the elusive white supremacist domestic terrorists, prosecuting pro-life 1st Amendment practitioners, censoring the public expression of dangerous opinions, planning political hoaxes, hiding Democrat scandals, and protecting a boy's right to use the girl's bathroom. I'm not sure where that last "right" is in the Constitution, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is looking for a penumbra now. The DOJ probably needs more people — that's a lot on its plate.
The Department of the Treasury employs 100,000 people. They mostly provide FDIC-insured banks with a path to failure, audit the taxes of people who are rich enough to pay taxes but too poor to afford attorneys, and are buying guns and ammo like office supplies. Treasury employees will also be taking out those new loans they've been authorized for. That will keep them busy for a few years.
The Department of Health and Human Services employs 80,000 people. They are dedicated people working to field the next pandemic, ensuring the continued profitability of the pharmaceutical industry, and paying people to not work.
The Department of the Interior employs 70,000 people. Its staff charges us to use the parks we paid for, and uses its mandate to provide clean air to change the weather. As part of its "weather control" initiative, it works to keep energy reserves out of the hands of evil climate deniers. Interior employees are ensuring that when mankind is extinct, we will have left the planet better than we found it — as good campers should.
The Department of State employs 69,000 people. All are essential to the mismanagement of relations with any nation friendly to the U.S., funding the U.N.'s hostilities to the U.S., and starting the next war necessary to keep the U.S. military-industrial complex coffers full.
The Department of Transportation employs 55,000 people. Under its current leadership, the department has undergone a major realignment, diverting resources away from air and railway safety, to more strategically important endeavors. Its staff of highly professional public servants are dedicated to making our highways less racist and finding new ways to tax us for the miles we drive on the roads we paid for.
In summary, extra-extraordinary measures would have meant downsizing among our most essential public servants. It would have prevented Washington, D.C. from remaining the one U.S. city immune from economic downturns.
Without a debt deal, crack whores squirting out babies may have had to purchase their own free iphones
No, they would not downsize the government. They would cut social security first. They’d try to make life as painful as possible. As an example, no company I ever worked for that faced a downturn let management go first even those who were ridiculously overburdened with management. Astonishingly, they often cut the people who actually brought in money first.
Hmmm...
Mulder always thought that the truth would set you free...
However, in these times of rampant tyranny, the truth can get you on the DHS & FBI list of clearly identified domestic terrorists...
Sure hope that JimRob has a plan for expunging the evidence when the stormtroopers begin rounding up the dissidents...
Tyrants like Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Ho must be spinning in Hell from jealousy because of today’s tyrants having the tools of control that were unimaginable when they were alive...
Unending tyranny is now an easily accomplished reality...
We need a constitutional convention of like minded states to start. They need to take back what they gave up over time, The states had the power in the beginning and reluctantly created the federal government with limited authority and duties, this is now upside down where they are using taxpayer money, our money to extort the state’s into rat regime and rhino agendas, squandering our money to foreign lands with no strings or purpose and pocketing much of it thru laundering and other criminal behavior. Back to basics is a path
“We need a constitutional convention of like minded states to start. “
I think that would be a disaster. The men who originally wrote the constitution were probably some of the leading wealthy people of their time. Even so the disparity between them and the average person of their day probably wasn’t huge. Zuckerburg allegedly spent over two hundred million dollars staffing the vote counting houses in just the critical counties and amazingly the Democrats won every county. Imagine some ordinary people are rewriting the constitution. Along comes someone and offers them each enough money to set them up for several lifetimes to include this or that. We could end up with changes to the constitution that none of us would want. It would be nice to think the delegates would all be honest and patriotic. But I doubt it. I think the fight to be on the committee will be hard fought to the point where honest candidates would meet accidents. At best it would probably be like a court ordered settlement where the baby gets split in half and no one is happy.
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Lol…. They were never in danger. The prez who locked us down n paid big pharma billions made sure the fiscally responsible people running for speakership were not endorsed… he approved this because he approve McCarthys record of progressive compliance.
Congress sent Americans a message and advice:
Do not live within your means.
Spend lavishly and have your children pay the money back and the carrying costs.
Borrow as much as you can and if you exceed your limit ask for more.
Max out all your credit cards and ask for a higher limit.
Do not pay back any debt.
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