Here we are at the last day of *this* week and I discovered other nations have problems too!
Seeking some respite from eternal back and forth about the same things… confusing my two overworked brain cells anyway … I found from the Opinion Journal of the Wall St. Journal that France is apparently under problems similar to our own. I had not heard or read about that – had you?
In any case – I’m rather doubting the people (perhaps excepting those who never make it on TV but who are quoted as the ‘scorers’ on the proposed pieces of legislation) that those crafting these competing fiscal proposals are rather like people floating down say the Mississippi on a log raft. They know where they are going and the approximate speed – but they really don’t know just when they will get there. Similarly WE don’t know (nor it seems does anyone else know with precision) just *when* we will run out of money.
I get the picture with money pouring *into* the treasury --- and month by month money is pouring *out* of the treasury… you would have to have an exceedingly fast and smart calculus calculator operating at top speed which was making adjustments for past payments and refunds and all the rest to figure out just when the spring would run dry.
That’s why these continually slipping ‘deadlines’ turn out not just to be phony… but at least inaccurate. So… after so many wrong cries of wolf – I can understand why people get tired of getting on edge and then getting down again. You and I know we can’t keep a checkbook balance on such a slippery surface… (but then overdrafts are not exactly unknown in our household.)
So… I guess we can’t fault the green eyeshade crowd too much. They’re doing the best they can with the problems presented to them.
Enough for today… we’ll listen and OH Yes… I’m glad some of the Freshmen (and women) in the House of Representatives took time out to pray. More effort along those lines will bring us out at the right place with less scrapes and scratches than all the wise-acres who ever crossed the threshold of the Department of the Treasury. I have known a lot of government employees… by and large they do their jobs well and within the bounds they are given if nobody starts to rock the boat or get greedy or overly ambitious – they will be right most of the time.
It’s when we let our un-better nature (which we *all* have) get the best of us that we hit the ditch or the curb or miss the turn entirely. The best answer again is prayer – prayer according to THE BOOK… the Bible.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
“JUST A MINUTE”
EVEN THE FRENCH HAVE PROBLEMS!
Just a Minute: Your name may not be Obama or Boehner but you may face a like problem -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has one.
French papers say Mr. Sarkozy wrote French parliamentarians – plowing new ground under the present constitution -- in effect since the 1950s. He informed them the Greek bailout and the mess in the euro-zone has exacerbated their problems and pleads with French legislators to get their act together on public spending – indicating he might have to seek a constitutional amendment making it mandatory to balance their budget.
Mr. Sarkozy is in the French ‘fryer’ because he is up for re-election in April of 2012 – sooner than his American counterpart – and France has the highest deficit and debt among the six triple A rated countries in the euro-zone. Contributing to the Greek bail-out again could cloud their debt problem even further. He would need a 3/5th majority to get the amendment – which is unlikely. So the French Socialist party may have to vote against austerity – much like the
Is it comforting to know others have fiscal problems too? <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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