Crisis Averted… We’re Doomed
Hooray! The debt crisis has been averted! We’re finally safe from the immediate risk of a massive US federal default. Now let’s see what’s next on the agenda… hmm, the FAA has been shut down for almost two weeks now… the markets dipped to their lowest levels of the year… the European debt crisis has shown to be far from over and possibly contagious… Yup, we’re doomed.
I’ve always liked the expression “out of the frying pan, into the fire” since I first read it in The Hobbit. It seems like an apt expression for just about everything in life. One solution almost inevitably leads to a new problem. Or at least the previous solution only illuminated the true problem. In this case, the frying pan isn’t the problem; the fire underneath is.
So here we are after weeks of worrying about a United States debt default. Crisis averted, but nothing was really solved. The economy still sucks. And, as long as the economy still sucks, we’re no closer to solvency. You know what, even if the economy was doing better, we probably wouldn’t be any closer to solvency without some combination of austerity measures, increased taxes, and debt forgiveness. The right will never let tax hikes pass, even if most of country thinks the wealthy should be taxed more. The left probably won’t go for Greek style austerity measures. And who the hell is going to forgive our debt?
So let me correct myself from earlier. We’re not doomed. We’re fucked.
But it’s okay. It’s not always so bad living in a third world country. The wealthy folk in those countries are usually extremely wealthy. You eventually get used to the parasites in the water.
Maybe this will be the impetus for the United States to be less united. Maybe the south will secede. I say let them this time. The only contribution that the Bible-Belt makes is to the country’s collective body mass index and obesity rates. Sure divorce is usually tough. The kids will be fucked up. But they’ll get through it. It might complicate things if one side gets remarried before the other side. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. The worst thing to do is to just stick it out for the kids.
That last sentence got me thinking. Just stop having kids. Debt problem solved.
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