Everybody knows one of these jabrones: they order apps, expensive wine (which you don’t touch), a high-priced entre, a fancy dessert (or two) … and then have the gall to suggest splitting the bill down the middle.
Ouch.
Ratchet the game up a notch, and you get Thomas Sowell’s perspective on the debt limit:
What the national debt-ceiling actually does is enable any administration to get all the political benefits of runaway spending for the benefit of their favorite constituencies — and then invite the opposition party to share the blame, by either raising the national debt ceiling, or by voting for unpopular cutbacks in spending or increases in taxes.
The Obama administration is a classic example.
When all its skyrocketing spending bills were being rushed through Congress without even being read, the Democrats had such overwhelming majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives that Republicans had … no chance of stopping, or even slowing down, the spending of trillions of dollars.
Now that the bill is coming due for all that spending and borrowing, Republicans are suddenly being invited in to share the blame for either raising the national debt ceiling or for whatever other unpopular measures will be legislated.
“If you didn’t invite me to the big take-off, don’t invite me to the crash landing.”
This was Obama’s big, partisan spending spree, but “bipartisanship” requires Republicans to either split the bill or be blamed if the government shuts down or defaults.
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