Deserves A Stand-Alone Post -- May 20, 2023

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From a reader this morning, thank you very, very, very much.

Link to MSN.

My not-ready-for-prime-time reply:

Wow, if that holds up, that's huge (my advice: the developer needs to have equipment in place today, and start laying pipe the minute President Biden signs the bill).

Here's what a lot of folks forget. This debt ceiling deal will probably be a thousand pages thick and that's before we get to all the "spin-offs."

The press can only hit the high points and the press generally only hits the top-line, headline, contentious issues because they have only so much time and "space" to get the story out (and they all have an agenda).

But hidden in those thousand of pages there has to be a lot of goodies to get US congress-people to support it. Imagine what McCarthy got for some of his more recalcitrant GOP MAGA politicos. If they want to go on record to vote against the bill to put social security recipients at risk, let them go for it. [Biden continues to impress me. Don't take that out of context; one needs to know from where "we" started this journey. Seriously: would you rather have Joe and Jill or Harry and Meghan or Barack and Michelle or The Donald and Melania in the White House? For me, the choice is easy and obvious.] 

The "401(k)" is a great example of big, big "things" hidden in massive bills.

I bet a lot of politicos wish the debt ceiling issue would come up more often. LOL.