Consider America as a household with bills to pay and a job. Say that home (America) has a set income. (taxes/revenue) At the same time, America has bills to pay like health insurance, (Social Security/Medicare) home mortgage & maintenance, (Infrastructure) electricity and gas, (Energy) student loans, (Education) groceries, (WIC) security monitoring, (defense) etc. All these bills add up to a little more than the household income. But wait, the wife (Republicans) bought a brand new car. (wars) The logical choice to be made is get another job to increase income (taxes)...right? It's called being fiscally responsible or paying your bills. But the wife (Republicans) insists that you cut your spending to pay for the new car. So you start looking at cutting costs but almost everything you are spending is essential for the health and well being of the household. It's stupid to cut out essentials rather than earn more money. That's why the Republican ideology is moronic.
On the other hand, the hubby (Democrats) would like to upgrade the groceries and health insurance and all the other bills while insisting that both members of the household work and earn more money. (higher taxes) The hubby also wants to keep the brand new car (wars) and maybe even get a big screen TV! (stimulus/bailouts) That's why Democratic ideology is stupid too!
So the bills come due and the wife (R) decides she won't write the checks to pay the bills, (debt ceiling crisis) and they get reported to the credit companies (S&P/Moody's) and their credit rating goes down costing them more in interest and making those same bills even more expensive. Both parties bicker without giving an inch that each one is right until the household goes bankrupt and ends in divorce.
It really is time to clean house and shake up our government to end the deadlock and stop going further into debt. Americans won't enjoy the day the dollar fails. Mark my words, if we don't change things drastically, it's going to happen.
