Mr. Burns and the Debt Limit
This might be a strained analogy, but I think it's pretty good.
Imagine for a second a fellow. This fellow gets a credit card and goes out and buys stuff with it. Nice stuff. All kinds of stuff. He takes the stuff that he's bought back home and enjoys it. Then one day the credit card company sends around a nice debt collector.
Our fictional fellow goes to the door and says "Look, I understand that I borrowed a lot of money and used that money to buy a lot of stuff, but now I'm feeling really bad about it. I need to live within my means, and in order to teach myself a lesson in fiscal austerity I'm not going to pay my credit card bills, and just take the damage to my credit score and financial history." The fellow sighs. "It's the only way I'll learn."
Pretty silly, eh? Obviously the fellow in this little story represents America; but there's more. Consider for a moment America's place in the world community. If the world Community were Springfield, you can't really say that America is the Cletus of the world community. Not even Homer. No. Even with our recent troubles, we are extraordinarily wealthy, in natural resources, in industry, and in individuals. We are the Mr. Burns of the World Community; and if we aren't that we're damn close.
So imagine all that scene above, but with Mr. Burns explaining that he needed a lesson in fiscal austerity. That's what Tea Party Republicans want, despite the damage to both our nations credit rating and our prestige on the world state.
I don't know - this might be way off, but thought I would share and see what other people thought.
Bryant
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