Don Surber continues to amaze with one superb column after another.
My favorite paragraph today is: "McCarthy may have scored more points in this deal but he made a mistake by playing their game. He should have played our game and let the government shut down before reaching an agreement."
McCarthy is inept at politics. The fact that he is somehow Speaker reveals that something else is going on beside rationality--something like Sabotage.
No, not sabotage, something much worse. We are electing people with out of control ego's who are committed to staying in DC a lifetime. That means WE and our country are second priority. They play the long game because no one is ever held accountable. Cue, Comey, Brennan, Clinton, Clapper, Obama, Wray, Pelosi, the Squad, Holder, Garland, Milley, Austin.............
The only time anyone "compromises" in WDC is when the FBI drops hints that they have videotapes and the IRS a minute or two later rings your doorbell, saying, "Say, we just happened to notice that you made some suspiciously-timed stock buys/sales/puts/calls..." (There will never be IRS fingerprints on Nancy Pelosi's chimes.)
--- "Benny Johnson tweeted from a Target location, “A whistleblower sent me an exclusive internal Target memo..." I saw that video. This guy's career as a journalist is virtually unlimited, granted that he can find enough people able and willing to fund his operation while the NYTimes henchmen are busy ordering lobsters and champagne.
Only in DC does not increasing spending equal a cut.
Why have a debt ceiling to begin with? It is meaningless. Reach it and raise it. Only in DC. If credit card issuers worked this way, we’d all have multi-million dollar limits on our cards.
SL, excellent point. Many of us have unlimited credit card limits, but if we don't pay it off completely each month what happens? They cancel our credit cards, sue us and get all their money, and ruin our credit rating (except if you are a preferred species of human). so we cant buy anything in the future What do we do? Buy only what we can afford. Our country is financially broke, our leadership morally broke.
I received a letter last Friday to support "Conservatives and conservative policies" with Kevin McCarthy's snout on the first page. I thought I'd wait and see what happened with this debt ceiling issue. Up until yesterday, I'd been somewhat surprised by Mr. McCarthy's performance to date, but no more. I wrote across the letter "33 TRILLION ISN'T ENOUGH SPENDING?" It's time to get real conservatives in real positions of power, Not RINOS like Kevin McCarthy.
Bad news is we are already bankrupt, the good news is so is the rest of the world, they just don't know it yet. The fact is at least our apartment buildings have humans residing in them; Unlike the Potemkin villages that dot the China landscape, anyone who thinks that a great investment is a empty highrise apartment building is a fool but the Chinese don't seem to mind one little bit while the real people live in hovels made of canvas and cardboard. We are moving inevitably toward war with the aforementioned for one reason, they have too many men. That is due to the genius who thought that one child per family was a great idea. The excess males will be taken care of, as they always are, through a bloody and all encompassing world war which, if allowed to, will implode the population bomb and cause a world of grief and suffering the likes of which we can only imagine in our worst nightmares or video games.
Our youth have lived through those video apocalypse senarios in their comfy chairs, unfortunately the real thing will not be so comfy for them or their heirs. i hate to be the bearer of bad news but looking foward, this Cassandra can see nothing good coming. And even with a change in leadership to someone who actually has a brain (read any republican Trump or DeSantos included) , I fear the worst although that small voice of optimism that is my American gene is trying to call out from the depths that all is not lost. I hope like tinkerbell in the original version that little dream still lives, and can overcome this black cloud that is approaching faster than we know.
"Bad news is we are already bankrupt, the good news is so is the rest of the world, they just don't know it yet." Haha! True.
And yes, the storm sure appears to be coming. The thing, though, is that even after the storm overtakes us and the planet is run by insane Communists/Globalists/Totalitarians, that "New World Order" will have to just collapse. Because--the Communists/Globalists/Totalitarians are colossally inept at doing anything constructive. All they can do is directly destroy things, and promote idiotic destructive ideologies, for example, that centrally-managed economies work better than millions of free individuals acting independently in a free market. Or that a person should be placed in a position for any reason other than merit. Your dermatology (skin color) determines your virtue. Etc.
So there is a principle of reality that ultimately will correct things-- it's the essential difference of Good versus Evil. ONLY Good can construct and sustain things. Evil cannot build, cannot create, cannot motivate, cannot fulfill; and anything it temporarily appears to build it cannot sustain. Evil is inherently flawed. Maybe each of these cycles of evil and good are overall teaching or clarifying to man what right and true principles really are.
Although the left media tries to hide it, there is a very, very healthy fermentation going on in the US. At least half the country does see the failure and damage of wrong (Leftist) belief systems, and more people are waking up every day as things get worse. We are understanding more clearly than ever how important the essential principles of the American Way are--the rule of law, separation of powers, reliable elections, etc. As these things are increasingly corrupted, their value becomes clearer.
I do believe we may yet pull off a victory here and reverse things. If Trump were to get back in office, things would improve SO fast, it would be like a cork submerged in a glass of water popping instantly back to the top. Just a few years ago we had a superb economy. The underlying ability of America still exists, and once set free would rebound at light speed. But maybe some further suffering is necessary for the other half of the country (the Left) to wake up further. So, we need to stay vigorously in the fight, and KEEP CONNECTING WITH and TALKING TO your leftist family and acquaintances. There's 100 million, 150 million, 200 million of us-- we each can just steadfastly, patiently red-pill one Leftist at a time. Every destructive thing the Left does just makes our job easier. Hang in there. And if things do completely collapse--hopefully that will make it crystal clear to everyone what belief-systems do NOT work. And then we will rebuild again, with a, hopefully, now more enlightened populace.
And every one of Don Surber's columns is itself a "red pill", which we can administer to our neighbors by sharing them!
I agree with most of your points but suggest that there is no victory nor loss until the final accounting.
This happens to each of us when we pass.
In the meantime, nations don’t win nor lose so easily. They are a process working itself out through the actions of millions of people doing the right thing, or the wrong thing.
As individuals we lift our nation by steadfastly refusing to compromise with evil.
Don Surber is right.
The founders were right.
A Republic can only survive through a righteous people.
There is hope. There is always hope. As the parable of Pandora’s box shows us; even after being opened and the evils therein loosed upon the world, even then, hope lingers still in its corners.
Except that during the Trump administration the spending went up not down. The Administrative State grew also. The economy was robust and if the government response to SARS CoV 2 wasn’t so authoritarian the ratio of debt to the economy may have improved. But that didn’t happen. Can we be sure that under a second term the same spending spree won’t happen.
Having debts that exceed your income is not the same as being bankrupt. The net asset value of all private property in the US is probably around $150 trillion. By that metric, which is often used to determine the collateral security of commercial borrowing, we are far from bankrupt.
Our debt circumstance is much like buying a house and putting 80% down.
Oh please you are living in a fantasyland if you think that that is the way we should be looking at our debt. No wonder democrats think you can borrow into infinity. How do you value all the private property in the US? What appraiser are you using? Nancy Pelosi's husband? Or maybe Hunter Biden. Get real we are in way over our heads and everyone with a brain knows it. We are now Greece. What is their private property worth?
The regime throws conservatives crumbs until we think we are winning and become delirious on our rare feeling of power. But, the big issues that further the nefarious mission of the investment bankers, George Soros, and the deep state "steam roll" over us without a murmur or a frown from our party "leaders". The fragmentation of the freedom caucus is proof the left is winning. MTG defected. Others in the caucus were strangely silent in expressing their views publicly until confronted. The love of money is the root of all evil. The bill is evil because Washington loves money.
“Every single prediction by the climate change cult has not come true. It still snows in winter, rains in the spring and heats in the summer. We have floods. We have droughts. The rich have beach houses.”
When banks stop mortgages on homes near the beach and insurance companies stop insuring them, then I'll start paying attention to sea rise scares. Until then, they can fck off
State Farm has stopped writing policies on new properties/construction in California due to rebuilding costs and wild fire threats. It will be interesting to see if this snowballs.
We have flooding every spring along the Wabash River. For yrs the insurance companies insured the area. Then they quit. Then the State insured the area for 30 yrs. The State finally quit and wont let anyone build where no one was supposed to build in the first place.
CA is different because their wild fires are mostly mismanagement of power lines and forests. Not sure if it will spread but it will more than likely.
With CA going from a $100 Billion surplus to a $30 plus Billion dollar deficient in the past year has already taken care of reparations. And that is with no disasters like, the annual unexpected summer fires and all.
Wind and hail insurance for houses on the South Carolina coast is around $3,000 per year for a 2,500 square foot home. Earthquake insurance is around $400. Flood insurance is maybe $180. So the actuaries think global warming is literally the least of our worries.
We're all mad as hell while our "leaders" (who are a joke) burn Rome. When do the knives and ropes come out?
We've had enough of their double standard: expect us to live in a budget while they just print money with no end in sight. Time to kill the beast before it destroys us all.
This compromise seems to be along the lines of…. the bank will increase your monthly payments but not as much as you thought and the balance on the mortgage will increase but not as much as it could have increased.
Either way we spend more each month and owe more each month.
Spelunker McCarthy delivered for his paymasters exactly what they ordered. Playing along with the Freedom Caucus until the eleventh hour and then stabbing them in the back is payback for the 15 rounds of voting in January.
Don, I agree with your assessment, although I'm not as critical of the speaker; I think he got the best deal he could. But the deal, at best, is nothing more than a meaningless minor tactical victory. Strategically, it counts for nothing, it just allowed the congressional and administration figureheads to preen and posture for the cameras and accomplish next to nothing. The real action is what's happening with the boycotts - where the people are actually making consequences bite. We need more of that. Washington delenda est.
I always like to see commie's cry but we need massive 'deconstruction' of the federal beaucracy. Debt ain't going away until we root out the parasite, in DC and around the country.
Since our government is essentially broke how about layoffs, and dramatic pay cuts across the board, as would happen in any business when the overhead exceeds the income? Cutting The bloat of government salaries and the ranks of administrative branches would save the US a bundle.! Why is that never even discussed?
Right on brother Don. This deplorable domestic terrorist is fed up to the gills with these bozos. McCarthy started to show some promise but blew it to RINO hell.
I make a motion to vacate and get a real fighter in.
Yes this sux along with Everything the D-Rats touch. And it’s going to continue to suck until T is back in the WH.
The truth was laid out perfectly by Charlie Kirk who hit the nail on the head so solidly I’m surprised ihe didn’t drive it all the way to Chyyna…
‘…The math is simple. Either we do the real work in about 80 counties across 5-6 states, @realDonaldTrump goes back to the White House, or we don’t and he doesn’t.
Anyone telling you anything otherwise, or in some other grandiose fashion that involves independents and walk-aways,…’
Want things to stop sucking? Let’s listen to Charlie and let’s get to work!
I gently disagree. The good news is my stolen election slogan Mean Tweets 2024 now has a higher probability of happening. You do remember who I stole it from? I'm a die hard rabid Surberite.
“We let government grow, but at a slower rate.”
Still speeding towards that cliff, but at a slightly slower speed.
Don Surber continues to amaze with one superb column after another.
My favorite paragraph today is: "McCarthy may have scored more points in this deal but he made a mistake by playing their game. He should have played our game and let the government shut down before reaching an agreement."
McCarthy is inept at politics. The fact that he is somehow Speaker reveals that something else is going on beside rationality--something like Sabotage.
No, not sabotage, something much worse. We are electing people with out of control ego's who are committed to staying in DC a lifetime. That means WE and our country are second priority. They play the long game because no one is ever held accountable. Cue, Comey, Brennan, Clinton, Clapper, Obama, Wray, Pelosi, the Squad, Holder, Garland, Milley, Austin.............
The only time anyone "compromises" in WDC is when the FBI drops hints that they have videotapes and the IRS a minute or two later rings your doorbell, saying, "Say, we just happened to notice that you made some suspiciously-timed stock buys/sales/puts/calls..." (There will never be IRS fingerprints on Nancy Pelosi's chimes.)
--- "Benny Johnson tweeted from a Target location, “A whistleblower sent me an exclusive internal Target memo..." I saw that video. This guy's career as a journalist is virtually unlimited, granted that he can find enough people able and willing to fund his operation while the NYTimes henchmen are busy ordering lobsters and champagne.
Only in DC does not increasing spending equal a cut.
Why have a debt ceiling to begin with? It is meaningless. Reach it and raise it. Only in DC. If credit card issuers worked this way, we’d all have multi-million dollar limits on our cards.
SL, excellent point. Many of us have unlimited credit card limits, but if we don't pay it off completely each month what happens? They cancel our credit cards, sue us and get all their money, and ruin our credit rating (except if you are a preferred species of human). so we cant buy anything in the future What do we do? Buy only what we can afford. Our country is financially broke, our leadership morally broke.
I received a letter last Friday to support "Conservatives and conservative policies" with Kevin McCarthy's snout on the first page. I thought I'd wait and see what happened with this debt ceiling issue. Up until yesterday, I'd been somewhat surprised by Mr. McCarthy's performance to date, but no more. I wrote across the letter "33 TRILLION ISN'T ENOUGH SPENDING?" It's time to get real conservatives in real positions of power, Not RINOS like Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy and McConnell - the McRINO twins...
McConnell is too much of a drunk to be twins with anyone, but I concede your point.
I haven’t trusted him since day one. Still don’t.
Bad news is we are already bankrupt, the good news is so is the rest of the world, they just don't know it yet. The fact is at least our apartment buildings have humans residing in them; Unlike the Potemkin villages that dot the China landscape, anyone who thinks that a great investment is a empty highrise apartment building is a fool but the Chinese don't seem to mind one little bit while the real people live in hovels made of canvas and cardboard. We are moving inevitably toward war with the aforementioned for one reason, they have too many men. That is due to the genius who thought that one child per family was a great idea. The excess males will be taken care of, as they always are, through a bloody and all encompassing world war which, if allowed to, will implode the population bomb and cause a world of grief and suffering the likes of which we can only imagine in our worst nightmares or video games.
Our youth have lived through those video apocalypse senarios in their comfy chairs, unfortunately the real thing will not be so comfy for them or their heirs. i hate to be the bearer of bad news but looking foward, this Cassandra can see nothing good coming. And even with a change in leadership to someone who actually has a brain (read any republican Trump or DeSantos included) , I fear the worst although that small voice of optimism that is my American gene is trying to call out from the depths that all is not lost. I hope like tinkerbell in the original version that little dream still lives, and can overcome this black cloud that is approaching faster than we know.
There is a storm coming.....
"Bad news is we are already bankrupt, the good news is so is the rest of the world, they just don't know it yet." Haha! True.
And yes, the storm sure appears to be coming. The thing, though, is that even after the storm overtakes us and the planet is run by insane Communists/Globalists/Totalitarians, that "New World Order" will have to just collapse. Because--the Communists/Globalists/Totalitarians are colossally inept at doing anything constructive. All they can do is directly destroy things, and promote idiotic destructive ideologies, for example, that centrally-managed economies work better than millions of free individuals acting independently in a free market. Or that a person should be placed in a position for any reason other than merit. Your dermatology (skin color) determines your virtue. Etc.
So there is a principle of reality that ultimately will correct things-- it's the essential difference of Good versus Evil. ONLY Good can construct and sustain things. Evil cannot build, cannot create, cannot motivate, cannot fulfill; and anything it temporarily appears to build it cannot sustain. Evil is inherently flawed. Maybe each of these cycles of evil and good are overall teaching or clarifying to man what right and true principles really are.
Although the left media tries to hide it, there is a very, very healthy fermentation going on in the US. At least half the country does see the failure and damage of wrong (Leftist) belief systems, and more people are waking up every day as things get worse. We are understanding more clearly than ever how important the essential principles of the American Way are--the rule of law, separation of powers, reliable elections, etc. As these things are increasingly corrupted, their value becomes clearer.
I do believe we may yet pull off a victory here and reverse things. If Trump were to get back in office, things would improve SO fast, it would be like a cork submerged in a glass of water popping instantly back to the top. Just a few years ago we had a superb economy. The underlying ability of America still exists, and once set free would rebound at light speed. But maybe some further suffering is necessary for the other half of the country (the Left) to wake up further. So, we need to stay vigorously in the fight, and KEEP CONNECTING WITH and TALKING TO your leftist family and acquaintances. There's 100 million, 150 million, 200 million of us-- we each can just steadfastly, patiently red-pill one Leftist at a time. Every destructive thing the Left does just makes our job easier. Hang in there. And if things do completely collapse--hopefully that will make it crystal clear to everyone what belief-systems do NOT work. And then we will rebuild again, with a, hopefully, now more enlightened populace.
And every one of Don Surber's columns is itself a "red pill", which we can administer to our neighbors by sharing them!
I agree with most of your points but suggest that there is no victory nor loss until the final accounting.
This happens to each of us when we pass.
In the meantime, nations don’t win nor lose so easily. They are a process working itself out through the actions of millions of people doing the right thing, or the wrong thing.
As individuals we lift our nation by steadfastly refusing to compromise with evil.
Don Surber is right.
The founders were right.
A Republic can only survive through a righteous people.
There is hope. There is always hope. As the parable of Pandora’s box shows us; even after being opened and the evils therein loosed upon the world, even then, hope lingers still in its corners.
There are righteous people. Good decent people.
Like you, I see green shoots everywhere.
Except that during the Trump administration the spending went up not down. The Administrative State grew also. The economy was robust and if the government response to SARS CoV 2 wasn’t so authoritarian the ratio of debt to the economy may have improved. But that didn’t happen. Can we be sure that under a second term the same spending spree won’t happen.
Having debts that exceed your income is not the same as being bankrupt. The net asset value of all private property in the US is probably around $150 trillion. By that metric, which is often used to determine the collateral security of commercial borrowing, we are far from bankrupt.
Our debt circumstance is much like buying a house and putting 80% down.
Oh please you are living in a fantasyland if you think that that is the way we should be looking at our debt. No wonder democrats think you can borrow into infinity. How do you value all the private property in the US? What appraiser are you using? Nancy Pelosi's husband? Or maybe Hunter Biden. Get real we are in way over our heads and everyone with a brain knows it. We are now Greece. What is their private property worth?
It's actually more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_United_States
The regime throws conservatives crumbs until we think we are winning and become delirious on our rare feeling of power. But, the big issues that further the nefarious mission of the investment bankers, George Soros, and the deep state "steam roll" over us without a murmur or a frown from our party "leaders". The fragmentation of the freedom caucus is proof the left is winning. MTG defected. Others in the caucus were strangely silent in expressing their views publicly until confronted. The love of money is the root of all evil. The bill is evil because Washington loves money.
“Every single prediction by the climate change cult has not come true. It still snows in winter, rains in the spring and heats in the summer. We have floods. We have droughts. The rich have beach houses.”
BINGO! I’m gonna use that.
When banks stop mortgages on homes near the beach and insurance companies stop insuring them, then I'll start paying attention to sea rise scares. Until then, they can fck off
State Farm has stopped writing policies on new properties/construction in California due to rebuilding costs and wild fire threats. It will be interesting to see if this snowballs.
We have flooding every spring along the Wabash River. For yrs the insurance companies insured the area. Then they quit. Then the State insured the area for 30 yrs. The State finally quit and wont let anyone build where no one was supposed to build in the first place.
CA is different because their wild fires are mostly mismanagement of power lines and forests. Not sure if it will spread but it will more than likely.
I'm sure it will and then watch. The state of California will get into the home insurance business, this making the issue of reparations moot.
With CA going from a $100 Billion surplus to a $30 plus Billion dollar deficient in the past year has already taken care of reparations. And that is with no disasters like, the annual unexpected summer fires and all.
That's because 85% of the new housing built in California in the last ten years have been sidewalk GE refrigerator boxes.
Wind and hail insurance for houses on the South Carolina coast is around $3,000 per year for a 2,500 square foot home. Earthquake insurance is around $400. Flood insurance is maybe $180. So the actuaries think global warming is literally the least of our worries.
We're all mad as hell while our "leaders" (who are a joke) burn Rome. When do the knives and ropes come out?
We've had enough of their double standard: expect us to live in a budget while they just print money with no end in sight. Time to kill the beast before it destroys us all.
Doncha know Republicans and Conservatives prefer to write strongly worded letters to editors or pen strongly worded op-eds sans knives and ropes?
This compromise seems to be along the lines of…. the bank will increase your monthly payments but not as much as you thought and the balance on the mortgage will increase but not as much as it could have increased.
Either way we spend more each month and owe more each month.
Spelunker McCarthy delivered for his paymasters exactly what they ordered. Playing along with the Freedom Caucus until the eleventh hour and then stabbing them in the back is payback for the 15 rounds of voting in January.
Don, I agree with your assessment, although I'm not as critical of the speaker; I think he got the best deal he could. But the deal, at best, is nothing more than a meaningless minor tactical victory. Strategically, it counts for nothing, it just allowed the congressional and administration figureheads to preen and posture for the cameras and accomplish next to nothing. The real action is what's happening with the boycotts - where the people are actually making consequences bite. We need more of that. Washington delenda est.
Boycott Washington. No deal. Let the govt shut down. That would be leadership
Only elected officials (working?) get paid as do we retirees who paid our dues is fine with me.Less is more this way.
I always like to see commie's cry but we need massive 'deconstruction' of the federal beaucracy. Debt ain't going away until we root out the parasite, in DC and around the country.
Since our government is essentially broke how about layoffs, and dramatic pay cuts across the board, as would happen in any business when the overhead exceeds the income? Cutting The bloat of government salaries and the ranks of administrative branches would save the US a bundle.! Why is that never even discussed?
Right on brother Don. This deplorable domestic terrorist is fed up to the gills with these bozos. McCarthy started to show some promise but blew it to RINO hell.
I make a motion to vacate and get a real fighter in.
Yes this sux along with Everything the D-Rats touch. And it’s going to continue to suck until T is back in the WH.
The truth was laid out perfectly by Charlie Kirk who hit the nail on the head so solidly I’m surprised ihe didn’t drive it all the way to Chyyna…
‘…The math is simple. Either we do the real work in about 80 counties across 5-6 states, @realDonaldTrump goes back to the White House, or we don’t and he doesn’t.
Anyone telling you anything otherwise, or in some other grandiose fashion that involves independents and walk-aways,…’
Want things to stop sucking? Let’s listen to Charlie and let’s get to work!
Yes, I read that too. Charlie Kirk is spot on. It is the only way to win at this point.
I gently disagree. The good news is my stolen election slogan Mean Tweets 2024 now has a higher probability of happening. You do remember who I stole it from? I'm a die hard rabid Surberite.