Everybody on all the news programs is demagoguing this issue of the debt ceiling to spin and slant it their ideological direction, and it’s getting more and more ridiculous! They’re all talking about how we need to just cut taxes or just raise taxes, and that will save the economy, and that’s why we need to raise/not raise the debt ceiling. (We must raise the debt ceiling anyway, since we’ve already spent the $, but we also need to reign in spending, or else we’ll be right back here arguing about raising the debt ceiling again in another few months, and we will have devalued our dollar, so we’ll have to spend even more for the same effect! {kind of like a drug-addict chasing the same high.}) The stupidest, most maddening thing about all of this liberal/conservative pundit-off theater stuff is how neither side is even addressing what might help solve our economic issues: they both just want to raise or cut taxes and increase or decrease spending! But neither thing will actually solve our problems: it will simply “kick the can down the road”! (And I’m opposed to can violence! Oh, and littering!)
So we really need to address our trade and tax policies to fix this situation, but nobody wants to talk about that. Both sides seem to want “free trade”, which isn’t free for our economy! Import tariffs, and tax penalties for companies who outsource jobs, and tax incentives for companies who create jobs in the US, would help to address this economic and debt issue more than anything else, but are they bringing it up? No!
Both sides are basically acting like a group of people eating nothing but beans all the time and all complaining about the fart smell: One side says they should open the window and let some of the gas out to ameliorate the smell, and the other side says that if they’d just bite the bullet and get used to the smell, they wouldn’t notice it so much anymore. But neither side is addressing the actual problem, which is this: If they would stop eating beans all the time, they wouldn’t all be farting so much!
This is what’s going on with the economy, and both sides’ issues on how to deal with it. And I got to use a fart joke to illustrate it! As a patriotic American and a comedy writer, I’m proud of that. And I’d like to think the Founding Fathers would have appreciated my concern for the country being analogized as a fart joke, too. In any case, I’m pretty sure Benjamin Franklin would have approved! After all, he’s most famous for being the first man to come up with that “pull my finger” gag that everyone loves so much today! Well, that and the electricity thing. (But I heard he was only trying to find out if lightning would light a fart even better than a match! It’s true!)
