THE DEBT CEILING (joke or common sense?)

[crossfire]

 I love it when a complicated situation can be explained in such simple terms!
  
 * Democrats don't understand 
  THE DEBT CEILING
  
 * Republicans don't understand 
  THE DEBT CEILING
  
 * Liberals don't understand   
  THE DEBT CEILING

 * NO ONE understands   
  THE DEBT CEILING
  
  SO, allow me to explain ... 

 Let's say you come home from work and find there has been a sewer-backup in
your neighborhood.  Your home has sewage all the way up to your ceiling.
 
  What do you think you should do?
  
 1. raise the ceiling, or
 2. pump out the 

:poop: ?

Your choice is coming in November 2016

Edited December 5, 2015 by crossfire

[No_0ne]

The debt ceiling was never anything other than a public relations stunt when Congress was catching some heat over the amounts being spent in WWI and WWII.  It would make more sense to just do away with it altogether rather than having these silly fights over the amounts, after all the debt which is represented by the "ceiling" is money already appropriated by Congress, sometimes many years earlier, the borrowing is just how they elect to pay the bills ...