Crash the train to stop it

[Dondilion]

It is posturing from both sides. Everyone is afraid to take a serious look at social security/medicare..
As to the military industry so many constituents feed from it that it has become a sacred cow.

So this is a regular show. In the meantime the country is trapped in inertia.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

It is posturing from both sides...

Actually, it's not. Democrats have never once used the debt limit to extort demands that they otherwise were unwilling to propose. The Republicans like to portray themselves as the party of fiscal responsibility, law enforcement, the military, patriotism, personal responsibility and moral rectitude. The past 6 years have shown this to be total bullshit. They are none of the above. They're performance artists driven by anger, lies and innuendo who have no interest whatsoever in governing.

To wit:

The House GOP is "insisting on yet-unspecified spending cuts in exchange for their support, a posture the party didn’t take during the presidency of Donald Trump when the limit was raised three times."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-debt-default/

They just want to gum up the works and create chaos for the Biden administration, not caring about the damage they do to the US and world economy.