The Frustrated CFO's Preface:
I wasn't planning on dignifying this new chapter in the government's bullshit with any words at all, but yesterday, during my news-reading self-torture, I came across the short bit cited below. I don't always agree with this journalist's points of view. However, in this instance she appears to channel my own libertarian position on several key issues. I couldn't say it better myself, so here you go:
"This week was dominated by the shutdown.
It's as much a shutdown of the executive functions of the brain as it
is of the government. A monument to monumental stupidity, it's also a shutdown of possibility, and of whatever residual trust the public still has in the American political system. Even those doing the right thing by fighting it were reduced
by the sheer absurdity of the situation. All to try to reinstate a
sequester-level budget that is itself horrifically self-destructive
(note to media: the Affordable Care Act and sequester are the compromises,
and bad ones, at that). That's right — we've now sunk to a level in
which the merely horribly self-destructive is a goal that seems out of
reach. So our leaders play games instead of even attempting to address
the real problems, like the roughly 20 million unemployed or underemployed Americans. That's for August. The September numbers weren't released on Friday — because of the shutdown."
Arianna Huffington
The Huffington Post
October 6, 2013
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