My commute to work runs from 60 to 90 minutes, although lately it's felt like twice that because no matter what radio station I'm tuned to, someone is yammering about the debt ceiling.
We get it. Things look bad. It makes for frightening media.
I'm sick of hearing about it.
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Some might call me a hypocrite for jumping on the bandwagon and writing a blog about the "debtpocalypse," but I feel compelled to share some statistics. Do you want to know how much the government actually thinks of this crisis?
I've written before on how search activity on FreeERISA can be a barometer for what's going on in the employee benefits world. If the US financial empire were really going to collapse on Aug. 2, you would expect to find federal employees "in the know" scrambling to assess the impact on one of our nation's most valuable financial resources: retirement dollars.
Where's the panic? No federal employees checking on the retirement plans of their private-sector loved ones? Sure there are spikes…at the end of the government's fiscal year and the calendar year. But nothing in the week leading up to the supposed meltdown.
Pandering political theater has been a low form of human behavior since the first consul stuck a purple fringe on his toga and bought the town a bigger aqueduct.
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