Politics

The policy of taking kids at the border away to hold separately sort of died not with a bang, but a whimper, as far as I can see.

Each time they dream up some executive order to rile up the Democrats (which is really what they're doing, and the Democrats know it, but can't help from reacting) it costs the government millions of dollars.  They're eating up their own financial reserves (thinking about the treasury as 'belonging to' the Republicans, which it may as well, seeing as it isn't money, but anti-money, to borrow an idea from the Physics people), which in turn means that they're adding to the deficit.  This means only one thing: the GOP has filled its pockets symbolically with all it can carry, and is preparing to allow the Democrats to deal with this unprecedented deficit.

If only the people-at-large understood the problems with deficit spending!  The national debt is now so large that the liberals and the Democrats cannot afford any social welfare.  Once the Democrats take Congress (and I'm almost willing to bet that the GOP will actually work in the side of the Democrats, because there's nothing for the GOP in taking Congress, and everything to be gained by seeing a Democrat Congress flounder for two years) all the Democrats can do is raise taxes again, pay down the deficit again, and try to prevent the Trumps from running off to Moscow.  Wait . . . maybe we ought to leave the deficit where it is, and maybe add to it a little.  Hopefully no do-gooders will step up to the plate to solve all the problems with brilliant out-of-the-box thinking . . . There may not be any boxes left, once 2019 rolls around.

Kay H. B.