Here We Go Again or the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

There's a story of a Russian economist who came to America and made an interesting observation about our political system. He said, "You Americans have two parties: the Democrats, who are the evil party, and the Republicans, who are the stupid party. And every once in a while they get together and do something bipartisan that is both evil and stupid."

Now we have a bipartisan government-funding agreement that will in a few months send the national debt into the thermosphere, will create inflation with funny money, will raise interest rates, and, thereby, will create still another round of rising unemployment. The politicians didn't just kick the can down the road. This time they filled the can with nitroglycerin and tossed it into the next congress and into the nursery of another generation. The celebration in Washington and the mindless media circus surrounding the story conjures up images of bedlam in an insane asylum. '" John Gile, http://www.johngile.com