Ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-debt-ceiling-crisis-america-at-its-worst-2011-7
Out of the entire article above, the one phrase that enrages me the most (other than the endless string of parentheses and SHOUTING CAPITALS OF COURSE) is “this traditionally non-contentious process”, by which the author refers to budget/debt ceiling legislation.
I mean, has the American public education system failed so miserably as to have produced a whole generation of “citizens” who would not even contend how their government is collecting and using their money? When you send your car to a shop for services, wouldn’t you at least take a look at the bill and question what exactly that repair that you are paying hundreds of dollars for is about? How come, when it’s the government and trillions of dollars, it suddenly becomes “non-contentious”?
Or maybe, we are where we are today, precisely because there have been too many Americans who are just like the author and think that it should be “traditionally non-contentious” to just blindly let the government tax and spend.