[Skybird]

Shutdown.

If it stays that, an earthquake will haunt the American state and society. And still:

You cannot endlessly spend more than you earn. If the apple costs one Taler, and you have thrre Talers, how many apples can you buy? Heck, every first class school kid can answer that question. Only greedy adults make this a complicated thing.

Can the circumstance that many Americans and families will be hit by a continuing shutdown, be an excuse for always buying five apples while having only three Talers, and 2 are added to the debt bill?

The answer is very clear. No, this cannt be an excuse forever. Not in America, not in any other country. The West lives and overspends as if money means NOTHING anymore, and by that we learn to think that nothing is worth anything anymore. We make claims, we think claiming gives us right - that we need to earn, that we need to save before spending, that we need to acchieve things: that is much harder to comprehend for many Wetserners now. Always claiming, always taking, always demanding instead. Even intentionally forming your life'S plan on this flawed logic. The others owe to us. The others must maintain us. The state (the others, in the end), have to spend for us. I want it - that already gives me claim for it.

Politicians do not correct this, they do not teahc people how wriong this thinking is. Instead, they motivate people additonally to think like this, pushing them deeper into dependency. Bigger dependency: more power for the political caste. The polit-priests.

Of course, a reflective self-analysis most likely will not take place. One will try to find political deals to bypass the problem, and start overspending again. The question what America wants, is more important than what America can afford. The Wants shall be the priority of politics, not the Cans. Money is nothing. Just add to the debts, cannot hurt to do so, right?

In America, or anywhere else: its a criminal system, and the actors all should serve life behind iron bars. Them, and all their economic experts and monetarian gurus. And the people shall feel ashamed that they legitimise and tolerate this gangster operetta on and on and on.

For in principle it is so very simple: if you have three talers and the apple costs 1 Taler, you can only buy none, one, two or three apples, but not four or more.Telling you can, means to talk drivel. Maybe some farmer lends oyu an additonal apple. But if he is clever, he demands you to pay your debt by the end of the week. If he is clever, he points his shotgun at you next time you come and do not pay your debt but demand another apple for free.

Only idiots, unscrupulous parasites and gangsters think that debts must not be paid back, and that you can always take without giving back.