If there is no pain, inflict it

Remember the sequester?  That’s the tool the king devised to get his lords in congress to agree to make a budget compromise.  If the lords failed, painful automatic cuts were to take place all across the kingdom.  When the lords failed to reach a budget deal, the king wanted to ignore the sequester, because according to the king and his court, the cuts would be so draconian as to cause the world to spontaneously combust and come to end over night.

The king and his henchmen warned us mere surfs over and over how miserable our lives would be if the lords didn’t let the king ignore the idea he came up with.  The cuts amount to a 2% reduction in royal spending.  Today, other than Spite House tours being cancelled so the king and queen don’t have to have us smelly commoners running about, who even knows that we’re operating under the king’s sequester?

We have moved from a 2% sequester to a 15% or so government shutdown.  Again the king and his henchmen predicted all manner of pain and world ending chaos if the lords in the house didn’t give the king a clean continuing resolution to keep all of his over paid and duplicative royal harassers of the subjects on the royal gravy train.

We’re now in day 6 or 7 or 607.   Who knows?  The only visible changes to day to day operations of a bloated and lazy government are the ones orchestrated by a vindictive and petty king to punish his subjects for not loving him enough.  There is no money to run the royal government you see, but there is plenty of money to Barrycade national monuments to keep commoners out and even more money to pay more royal enforcers and harassers to keep people out than if they had just adopted a “business as usual” approach.  And while there is no way for the subjects to see and use the Parks, there is ample money for an illegal alien rally at the memorials.

Next comes the default.  The king and his chief coin counter are again warning early and often of Armageddon if the lords do not raise the debt ceiling, which according to the king, oddly doesn’t even raise the amount of debt owed.   Weird, huh?

So if history is any guide, we can count on a minimal impact from a failure to raise the debt ceiling.  We can also count on the king making the debt ceiling fiasco as painful as possible for all of us unworthy subjects who just do not appreciate the king’s greatness.  The king and queen are as likely as not to board separate royal jets and fly to Switzerland where he is adored and glorified in a manner befitting his greatness.  There he and the queen will ride out all of the discontent here in the kingdom.  They will live in the grand style befitting one of his greatness and not return until we the sheeple fall prone and beg his forgiveness.

In his absence, the kingdom will be plagued by Lord Harry the roach Reid and the Duchess of Dumbazz Nanny Pelooser.  In the king’s absence, it will be their job to extract as much pain and tribute as possible from an ungrateful and increasingly (I hope) rebellious population.