You forgot the barf alert.
There should be no barf alert. The article is spot on.
And to use my analogy, we are a family on the edge of financial collapse and mom and dad are “solving” the problem by arguing over whether to pare the Netflix account from 3 movies at a time to one, vs two at a time.
They are a joke. It is like a bad movie where the characters don’t act like real people, except these are “real” people
But then, do they have a choice? There is no way to get political approval from the electorate to do the hard things that must be done to resolve this. Greece is a picnic compared to what we will see here, and it really doesn’t matter WHAT congress does.
The time for a “relatively painless” solution passed years ago. That is why I warned my republican friends in 2008 that they really may not want their guy to win the presidency, only to take the blame for the biggest national collapse in the history of mankind.