Yep, the America of the past 236 or so years is coming to a close with the GOP's likely cave on the debt ceiling. What emerges from the ashes of the coming collapse is up to We the People.
...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The big political parties in Europe are already cutting deals over and over again that do not balance budgets, raise taxes and even cut pensions like Greece.
This “Taxpayer Protection Act” has the smell of European style austerity measures where the party to the “Left” and the party to the “Right” get ideas from their lists into the agenda.
But the problems of debt and spending are not solved by them like it is in Greece and other European nations. They are kicked onto the next “crisis.”