03-14-2017, 03:45 PM
(03-14-2017, 03:14 PM)Galen Wrote:(03-14-2017, 03:12 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: I dunno, we have run into debt ceilings before. Let's hold off and see what actually happens, first.
I am only presenting a couple of possible scenarios. It just that Trump doesn't play the game by the usual rules.
Hmm... I don't know that Trump knows the usual rules.
I'm used to debt ceilings contests being run like a game of chicken. One group insists on something greatly partisan or else they'll shut down the government. The other side says go ahead, shoot yourself in the foot, shutting down the government would be a political win for the party that didn't. It's usually as much about public relations and politics as economics.
If Stockman has it right, there are a whole bunch of people who want to take the car off the cliff, and are keeping the existence of the cliff quiet until it is too late to hit the breaks. Not the usual pattern.
I'm not sure there's anyone at the wheel. The GOP Congress is pretty divided, the Democrats want them looking bad. If Stockman has it right, the 'deep state' is deliberately throwing monkey wrenches. From what I've seen of Trump, he'll be more interested, at least at first, in finding someone to blame and throwing a hissy fit than fixing stuff.
What was that Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.