Maybe if the senate had not loaded this bill up with unrelated pork,
it might have had a better chance.
We didn't even attack the deficit with the cliff bill. They added debt
and kicked the can 2 months down the road.
When will the world simply stop buying our bonds? The treasury is
buying back 80% of the new issues now using money they create out of
thin air. That shows how soft the market in our paper actually is.
More likely, the House Repugnants were showing the people of a "Blue
State" that they really didn't give a **** about them.
I just saw Mitch Landreu (Gov Louisiana) saying he is still waiting
for the rest of his FEMA money from Katrina.
People are fools thinking the federal government can do anything fast
enough to qualify as disaster relief.
Yeah, especially when you have a dictator like Boehner who wouldn't even
let the House vote on relief.