Well, folks, there's a big lie that we in the United States keep telling ourselves.

This is particularly true on the right, but it's true across the board.

And that lie is that we want our government to be fiscally responsible in some way, shape, or form.

That is clearly a lie because we keep electing politicians to not be fiscally responsible in any way, shape, or form.

Regardless of who runs the government,

the spending keeps going in one direction and that direction is up. There's a reason we are running a

$34 trillion national debt at this point in time. And it is likely that that debt is going to

continue to accrue because nobody takes this problem particularly seriously. And they're not

going to take that problem seriously until we run smack into a wall. That is how typically fiscal crises work. Country spend too much

money. They're unable to rein it back in because there are too many people who become dependent

on that spending of the money. And then instead of creating some sort of plan to get out of debt,

people just keep running up

those debts, keep running up those deficits until the time comes that you have to take extremely

harsh remediation action. That is the high likelihood here. Why do I say this? Well, because

yesterday, the House Republicans as well as the House Democrats passed overwhelmingly yet another

continuing resolution. And this is the way we now fund the government because we're not

able to actually have serious negotiations on department, department, department, by department

level with regard to spending. We're not able to negotiate over how much should be spent

on defense or how much should be spent on education. Instead, we sort of wrap everything up

into a ball. And then when we can't get approval on a year-long budget, then we go to continuing resolutions,

which are these short-form budgets that continue the government spending, and, you know,

we just kind of keep the train running, and the train will run until the train runs completely

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