Another Way of Looking at the Debt Ceiling

You come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup and you have sewage up to your ceiling. What do you do…raise the ceiling or pump out the @#$%?

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12 Responses to Another Way of Looking at the Debt Ceiling

  1. J Soden says:

    Wonderful analogy! So simple even the politicians can understand it!

    Maybe.

  2. Pie Guevara says:

    Re: What do you do…raise the ceiling or pump out the @#$%?

    I can answer that, the Democrat way.

    First you appoint a super commission to determine exactly how high the sewage has risen and if it really poses a problem.

    Then you appoint a study group to examine any environmental risks that might be incurred if the drain were to be cleared and the sewage allowed to flow to the sewage treatment plant.

    Then you hire a sustainability adviser to determine if sending sewage to the sewage treatment plant is a sustainable activity.

    After it has been determined that the ceiling should be raised, you put out a bid to a select group of contractors who have funded your political campaigns.

    The ceiling is raised, the sewage remains in place and everyone goes home happy. Except you.

  3. Libby says:

    The employees of the CDC do not consider the source of their livelihoods to be sewage, nor would you, if you had the sense god give a turtle.

  4. Tina says:

    …and when all else fails you create a new department of @#$% to regulate and oversee all @#$% related endeavors. A new Secretary of @#$% will be appointed and given a brand new set of offices, staff, budget and a shiny new logo!

    On another front…”Department of Jobs”…is he @#$%ing us?

  5. Quentin Colgan says:

    You pump it out.
    Pumping it out means stopping the wars, though.
    Since the Republicans are 100% against cutting spending for the two wars they got us into, the Republicans are 100% against pumping it out.

  6. Post Scripts says:

    Q, I think most republicans think its time to wrap our mission in Iraq, do you have other information? Probably almost as many think its time for us to extract ourselves from Afghanistan. Again, do you have info.that says otherwise? I would like to hear it.

  7. Tina says:

    Just the wars? I’m afraid that’s not enough even if it ended completely today.

    According to an analysis by the American Thinker’s Randall Hoven, the cost of the Iraq war from 2003-2008 — when Bush was in office — was $20 billion less than the cost of education spending and less than a quarter of the cost of Medicare spending during that same period.

    According to CATO defense spending under bush was up 34%, education 70%, Labor 65%, and non-defense discretionary spending was up 20%.

    Clearly under Bush it wasnt the war alone.

    Under Obamathe skys the limit on entitlement and redistribution spendingand hes high on war spending too!

    According to CBO numbers the projected cost of just the stimulus, which passed in February 2009, was $862 billion. (and most of it tossed down a rat hole in terms of “stimulus”)

  8. Pie Guevara says:

    Pumping sewage is one skill Quentin Colgan has thoroughly mastered.

  9. Quentin Colgan says:

    American Thinker’s Randall Hoven must work for the Democrats!!!
    Either that or he has his head a mile up his ass.
    He says we spent 5.7 trillion PLUS another twenty billion on education!!!
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    Let me guess, Tina. You believe that crap.
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    No, you don’t.

  10. Quentin Colgan says:

    Why on Earth do you guys want to end the war now???
    The threat of terrorism is suddenly over?
    Or, people ain’t buying that crap anymore???

  11. Quentin Colgan says:

    Poe Guevara writes:
    “I have no balls so all I can do is attack my betters.”

    That’s OK, child. Maybe some day they will descend.

  12. Tina says:

    In case anyone wonders Randal Hoven is an engineering professor at Southern Illinois University. You can see how his students rate him here:

    http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=839464

    Quentin might be particularly interested in this article from July 2008 by Prof Hoven on yelllowcake, WMD and Saddam! (story source AP)

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/disconfirmations_disconfirmed.html

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