Bills, Debt, Truth and Politics. Like Oil And Water. And A Sinking Feeling.

Ya know what I'd like to talk about? I'd like to talk about how we can get better jobs back into America. I'd like to talk about that, but our congress won't let me. Don't get me wrong, It's not that they are out to get me personally. Heck, they don't even know me. And it would seem that even if they did, they just don't care. They'd rather play political gamesmanship then govern. See, the last few years, or even longer ago, the congress's and Presidents committed  to certain debt. It's money we owe. Like your light bill and mortgage payment. If you don't pay, they shut off the lights and kick you out of the house. But congress, that is to say all the Republicans in the house and about eighty Democrats voted, basically, not to pay the bills. Yep, if we don't raise the debt ceiling, we stand the absolute risk of not being able to borrow any money from then on. In other words our credit rating would bottom out. And in a shaky world economy like now, it could happen just by the congress's playing around. These folks don't care though. It's election campaign time. Hey, it's always campaign time. Never mind that it's money already spent, they want to talk about what we might want to spend tomorrow. Well that's an important topic for conversation, but first things first. Unless you don't care about the country, only your reelection. These people would have us think they really care about you and me. But if they did care about you and me, they'd pay the bills, or more precisely, they'd raise the debt ceiling, so we can keep the lights on. See, with the lights on, we can see who we're talking to about getting our debt down. It's the difference between transparent governing and translucent governing. I'd like to see the truth clearly instead of having it blurred. They seem to prefer that we not see what's going on. And the truth is not in them. Or to put it another way, they speak with forked tongues.