[nathanbedford]

With $36T in debt, all issues of tax and spend no longer mean anything. That debt level has no solution. There is nothing that can be done.

There are only two issues. The Border and the Swamp

With respect I believe you have the priorities inverted. If the debt crisis is not resolved there will be no control over the border and no cleaning out of the swamp because there will be no constitutional republic as we now know it.

History tells us that in the wake of every catastrophic financial crisis the result is not better more prudent government but tyranny as the people turn in their desperation to a Savior, a man on horseback, who promises to end the misery if only we surrender a small portion of liberty.

A budget out of control means no economy no economy means no Republican democracy and no constitutional government as we know it means no border and no accountable administrative government. If the government cannot control its budget history tells us it cannot control the streets, it cannot control the mob, and, ultimately, it cannot control itself.

[Night Hides Not]

Glad to see you posting, Nathan! The silence towards controlling spending in DC is maddening. Now we’re adding a trillion in debt every 100 days, and no one inside the Beltway gives a damn.

I haven’t returned to Germany in 40+ years, life keeps getting in the way. However, I continue to buy from my favorite winery, Weingut Eduard Kroth. I’ve been a customer since 1978.

[Owen]

You are generally correct, but did not extend thought into what is inexorable.

There doesn’t have to be an answer. It can all fail. All problems don’t have solutions.

Nihilism is ascendant because mathematics is inescapable.