Ahh, Jacob (my Facebook friend)! You say, "I would never be in a situation where I owned a free-and-clear Mercedes and did not have insurance on it. That’s nuts!"
However, this is what we did, as a country (both the right, the left, the middle, and the “bassackward”), didn’t we? It's not shit that is filling the house (our Republic), it's loved ones, enemies, (milk) subsidies, safety nets, corporate golden parachutes, spent arms we never purchased, and shattered and broken lives we pulled out from under the wreckage of war. The analogy of “raising the ceiling” is cute in that it uses a few of the same words for "raising" the debt "ceiling.” However, it is truly a matter of how we raise the ceiling when the reality is: There is no present way to get it done without sacrifice and a long-term plan. The divergent absolutes cannot tolerate the presence of each other’s positions, so they refuse to compromise.
Loren M. Lambert © December 29, 2012
However, this is what we did, as a country (both the right, the left, the middle, and the “bassackward”), didn’t we? It's not shit that is filling the house (our Republic), it's loved ones, enemies, (milk) subsidies, safety nets, corporate golden parachutes, spent arms we never purchased, and shattered and broken lives we pulled out from under the wreckage of war. The analogy of “raising the ceiling” is cute in that it uses a few of the same words for "raising" the debt "ceiling.” However, it is truly a matter of how we raise the ceiling when the reality is: There is no present way to get it done without sacrifice and a long-term plan. The divergent absolutes cannot tolerate the presence of each other’s positions, so they refuse to compromise.
Loren M. Lambert © December 29, 2012
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