by confoundedinterest17

Its that point once more when Congress does its Kabuki Theater drama about elevating the US debt restrict. After all, everybody in Congress and the Biden Administration need to spend trillions of {dollars} so they’ll hike the debt restrict.

With the US authorities dealing with the hazard of a funds default later this yr, Congress has quite a lot of paths to avert financial catastrophe and enhance the debt ceiling.

All of them would probably contain going proper as much as the market-rattling brink, based on present and former lawmakers and aides.

The timeline kicks off inside weeks, when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is anticipated to advise that the federal government will deploy extraordinary accounting measures to keep away from working out of money. These steps are forecast to be exhausted after July.

Republicans now answerable for the Home are demanding deep spending cuts as the worth for a rise within the ceiling, whereas President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats reject such an final result.

Nothing has been the identical because the monetary disaster of 2008 and the ascension of all-time large spender Nancy Pelosi as Home Speaker. Finances deficits have by no means been the identical. The final funds surplus was underneath Home Speaker Newt Gingrich. However because the monetary disaster of 2008, Federal spending appears to have elevated its trajectory.

Observe that necessary spending (Medicare, Social Safety, and many others) is rising like a wild fireplace whereas discretionary spending is seemingly flat. So, it necessary spending that Congress will faux to chop.

Sure, it’s Medicare for our growing old inhabitants that has blown uncontrolled.

Then now we have protection spending. The Ukraine spending ought to come from this pot, however forces choices to make between Ukraine and caring for our Navy (to compete with the rising Chinese language navy).

After all, as The Fed fights inflation, we’re seeing the COST of Federal debt hovering since Covid.

And the US is dealing with, along with $31.5 TRILLION in debt, a whopping $173.6 TRILLION in UNFUNDED LIABILITIES (Social Safety, Medicare, and many others).

Sure, Congress NEEDS to chop again the spending, significantly on Social Safety and Medicare (to not point out Ukraine spending), however it’s all Kabuki theater. Queue the screams of “Republicans will take away …”.

I want everybody in Congress had been like Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul, not the opposite spendaholic Kentucky Senator.