Social Insecurity?

 The news is filled with stories about the great Debt Ceiling debate in which only the House Republicans are actually discussing the issue. The Senate is already home for the Memorial Day holiday break and the President is unaware of everything. So, I just have a few questions for those in authority, whether or not they are on the job this week.

Every time there is a crisis involving federal government budgets, the first thing said is "Social Security recipients may not get checks". Why don't they ever say, "Food stamp recipients may not get paid"? How about "Federal employees may not get paid"?  Has anyone threatened to cut off funding a losing war in the Ukraine? How about suggesting that people who borrowed money for college pay it back, so we don't have to pay it? Can we stop the State Department from funding drag queen shows in other nations? Can we stop tearing down "racist highways"? In short, it may be time to quit pissing away our money in other places.

Here's a novel thought. If you are going to run a trillion-dollar budget deficit. why don't we work out the financing arrangements before we start spending? The Democrats controlled both houses in the last term, passed a huge budget and then failed to arrange the financing. I am sure that the Republicans have probably done the same before. Why does Congress they do this? Do they go buy a car and then try to work out financing six months later? 

So back to Social Insecurity. The government always threatens to shut down one of the few programs where recipients have actually paid into the system. We are sending billions of dollars to the Ukraine. Other than bribes to the Biden family, have they invested anything in our government?  Not just no, but hell no!! The United States is so desperate for approval that we are having to buy our friends. It's like looking for love and settling for a hooker.

What's the moral of this story? More empires have been destroyed by bad economies than by foreign invasions.