Short-sighted and just plain wrong

Here’s the short version of the rant I first wrote.

The debt ceiling will be raised but there will spending cuts and no tax increases or loophole closures. That is the way the people who run this country want it to be.

That is not what the majority of Americans want, it is not the right thing to do and it will not help the economy.

This will happen because the people in charge in Washington want spending cuts – Republicans and Democrats, Congress and the White House. It will hurt a lot of people, but the politicians have decided that this is the best way to get re-elected. They may be right. The problem is, politicians aren’t elected to get re-elected, they’re elected to do the best damn job they can do to help the country.

If all they did was raise the debt limit and allow the current tax cuts to expire the deficit will go down. It will do so slowly, but it will go down. With no spending cuts. But Washington is in love with spending cuts because they think it makes them look all grown up and serious. It’s despicable.

This is a great nation being ruined by small people.

I hope that I am wrong. I hope that something changes.