Thursday, 3 October 2013

The US Debt Ceiling and why it could be worse

I have been working on the floor again today I need to get it finished before I whiz away for a few days on a secret mission, leaving you all in suspense asking questions like WHY…. WHERE …. HOW …. WILL HE RETURN …. DO WE CARE.

It is rather ironic working on a floor today because I thought I might discuss the American debt ceiling and the present impasse of their political system. The reason for this is because one or two of my American friends are a little worried and concerned that America is looking a bit stupid. So I am here to reassure them that this is not the case, OK yes we might all snigger a bit but only because America is a huge super power.



You see it may be rather frustrating to live in a country that has sort of closed, but at the end of the day it is better to live in a country that is fairly tolerant of most points of view and allows the individual to do their own thing within reason and there is at least a degree of equality. Lets face it things like equality and tolerance are never quite as they should be even in the best of countries, so the USA is doing as good as any.  You see the alternatives are not so good, places like China, Russia, most of the Middle East huge chunks of Africa and loads of smaller places would I suspect blame the whites, the blacks, the Catholics, the Jews, the Christians, Muslims or Old Bert’s Dog etc and shoot them all or lock them up or have a bloody military coo or someone would just tell you to hand over everything or else.

I am sure there is plenty of inequality in the US but it is less than many many other countries. The hard bit in all this is that folks living standards in the West in general are probably going to drop with time, we have had a good time (well some have) but we have blown all the money now and so its back to crunchy dried ships biscuits, a glass of grandpa’s moonshine and growing veg in the garden, milking the goat and selling the goats cheese on Ebay.  And a pleasant trip to the office in the pony and trap.

It might be tough and hopefully your politicians will think country and not self, but somehow I suspect you will all muddle through in the end. After all most ordinary people in most countries are nice including your good selves     


So my friends in the USA yes you may be broke, bankrupt, insolvent, penniless, ruined and bust but at the end of the day you could live in Syria or the like or eating Old Bert’s Dog…
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10 comments:

  1. Pete3 October 2013 at 23:06

    I think Old Bert's Dog has got a lot to answer for and more than we already know. I'm sure in the coming months we will be hearing of his involvement in the Daily Mails story of Somebodies Dad, what he was doing on that grassy knoll and just why he was driving an unmarked green car through a tunnel in France on that Fateful day.

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    1. Rob Z Tobor3 October 2013 at 23:25

      I have hear rumour of a Mr Big working behind the scenes who is Old Berts Dog's controller; he is code named Old Bert.

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  2. Friko4 October 2013 at 00:31

    What we need is more pigeons, then we could all have a coo.

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    1. Rob Z Tobor4 October 2013 at 10:14

      I have plenty of Collar Doves at present lurking about in the garden. They are very placid birds but also capable of coo's

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  3. esbboston4 October 2013 at 05:01

    I am not worried in the least bit, and I have thought they were far beyond a bit stupid for quite some time, perhaps a byte stupid. Happy October to you. I had to reset the Weather Channel app on my iPad today and it lost aLL my favorite places, but I eventuaLLy got them replaced and I got Lydham back on my list. It shows that it is raining at your place but doesn't give me a weather map.

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    1. Rob Z Tobor4 October 2013 at 10:20

      It was certainly raining heavily for a while last night but the sun is sneaking back now and we are predicted a good weekend. I hope it is good as I will be away for a few days so probably not posting on the blog, but I have a tale for today to keep folk interested until my return.

      I think your IPad must be aware that certain things have closed and is using its built in app iPredict to assess US government funding cuts.

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    2. esbboston4 October 2013 at 14:10

      I noticed that my iPad has a paradoxical bug in it. When you swipe upwards from the bottom of the screen it reveals a sub menu that includes the lock button for controlling the portrait-landscape orientation. I always 99.8% keep my iPad in landscape mode, BUT if you ever discharge the battery AND recharge it while it is not in a horizontal position, the silly machine forgets to keep the lock in place and releases it. AND in the latest version of the op sys the swipe up to reveal the sub menu is annoyingly way too sensitive and interferes with normal vertical scrolling, a common task. BUT if the landscape lock is not in place it is virtuaLLy impossible to get the swipe up to work AND the old two step method for revealing the submenu appears to be gone. Argggg ....

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    3. esbboston4 October 2013 at 14:12

      AND ... I just had to log back into Blogger for the THIRD time since midnight, so 3 times in 8 hours, triple Argggg ..... and pop-up window blocking seems to not work on the iPad.

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  4. Adam Lloyd4 October 2013 at 08:15

    I'm rather nervous about your secret mission. I have a secret mission too, and I'm hoping that we aren't on opposing sides during our secret missions, where we'll be forced to duel to the death over the affections of an alluring Russian spy lady. If so, good luck and I'll see you on the battlefield.

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    1. Rob Z Tobor4 October 2013 at 14:21

      We can but choose our weapons of choice and may the best man win . . . . .

      As you know I will choose my trusty pointy stick newly sharpened and polished, and a bacon butty.

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