The strength of feeling and emotion in the last post has motivated me to spring into print.  It’s always a good idea to agree with your better half or at the very least to be tactful in disagreeing - but in this case there’s no need for any tact or diplomacy, because if anything, the Boss has understated it, I believe.

I think that the Washington Wackos need to enter some sort of addiction recovery program.  They are clearly out of their minds and can only react to any problem by throwing money at it.  Normal people give some sort of thought to budgeting - which to most folks means figuring out how much money they have coming in (usually from earnings at a job, but sometimes from investments too) and then deciding how much of that they can afford to spend.

First of all are the essentials such as buying food for the family, paying the utility bills to keep the home heated in the winter and cool in the summer.  Next is likely to be the mortgage or rent payment because they need a roof over their heads.  If they have car loans or credit card bills they come next.  And finally there is discretionary spending such as new furniture, a vacation or remodeling the bathroom.  For some, how to get out of debt is an added burden if they’ve overspent in previous months and years - but most people are responsible enough to accept their debts and try to repay them.

But none of this basic common sense approach seems to apply to the Washington Wackos, whether they are Representatives, Senators or even inhabitants of the White House.  They appear to have absolutely no regard for what they’re spending nor how it will be repaid.  They have no regard whatever for the effects of loading up current and future taxpayers with loan and interest payments.

Instead they seem to vie with each other for financial irresponsibility, and this latest incompetent White House numbskull looks as if he’s out to set the record for the most dumb decisions in the shortest space of time.

You might have thought that the previous White House incumbent, along with High Spending Hank from the Treasury made a foul up of things and who would argue with that?  But Tax Cheat Tim and Blundering Barack want to prove that anything W could do, they can do better.  Or in this case, a mountain-sized amount worse.

The whole bunch of them, White House and Congress, Blundering Barack, Nitwit Nancy and Hopeless Harry, are about as welcome and talented as a dose of bubonic plague.

Are none of this group of more than five hundred Wackos possessed of the least bit of any ability to think?  Are they so power-crazed, short sighted and self-absorbed that they can’t see the wood for the trees?  Will they wake up (or will the country just wake up and throw them out of office) before it’s too late and we’re all reduced to poverty?  Do these clowns think that “equality” means making everyone equally poor, except for the riches they bestow on themselves?

I guess only time will tell.