The Debt Ceiling and Real People

The challenge of America's Congress is the same as it's always been: balance the needs of the people with the purposes of government. Balance is the operative word. And it's been missing for a while now.

When this administration came to office, they went on a major spending spree. The answer for everything was to throw money at it. Now previous administrations weren't lily-white in that respect either, as their definition of help was spend as well. They used Social Security for their own purposes instead of the people. They allowed fraud to run rampant through the Medicare system, and every other government program. They gave money away in piles to anyone with their hands out. Consequently we have a sort forest "fire-side economics." Even Smokey the Bear would tell them they played with matches and it burned up the forest.

So what to do? The government has worked hard to create dependent people- I know, we're some of them. Without the pension checks, we'd be goners. Pull the plug on the programs and people suffer. Pull the plug on the debt ceiling and the government defaults, which would be a catastrophe in the making.And people yet again would suffer. Big catch-22.

The American people are pretty resilient, for the most part. They will survive whatever has to happen to get this mess fixed and our economy back on the right track. The tragedy would be if Congress played so many games that nothing happened at all. And, to be blunt, I think that's what is going on. The compromises I've read so far are nigh unto worthless toward the debt.The games played seem to be largely for media consumption rather than the exercise of real wisdom. Like my dog says, they're just barking at each other.:)

The Bible says that "where there is no counsel, the people fall; and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety." Proverbs 11:14 Unless all the counsellors are failing to get some wisdom. Then there is really no safety at all.