Mañana

5-10-23

Yesterday’s debt ceiling meeting of the “leaders” of the free world yielded….nothing. Speaker of the House McCarthy, the President and Senators McConnell and Schumer all sat around and did nothing. Instead, we got the same rhetoric from both sides. The impending doom being forecast is not enough to get the President to agree to even consider reductions in spending even though he and most everyone in his party, cast our fiscal situation as needing adjustment. What we got from him is, we’ll talk about that later.

Mañana is a strategy employed by both parties. Even when they hold total power, as both have in the past decade, the issues of immigration, health care, homelessness etc. were never addressed let alone resolved. “We’ll look at that AFTER we get X done.” Let’s ask Senator Manchin how that worked for him.

Tomorrow seldom comes for talks about reducing spending when Democrats hold power. Rather, the duplicity of words casting reductions in the increase in spending as onerous, substitutes for real attention to our collapsing fiscal condition. The usual fearmongering is there for all to see and yet again, with the full power of the media, it works. Children will starve to death, veterans will die on the steps of the VA hospitals, seniors will be found decaying in their apartments from lack of heat/air conditioning etc. Yet, we keep putting up with this inattention to serious issues further abetting the crime.

Tomorrow never comes but when the reality of it does, we citizens will be left holding the bag while our esteemed “leaders” are ensconced in their hoity toity enclaves. Watch for the exodus of the elites to parts unknown when that happens. Real estate in the Cayman Islands is a good bet right now.