We are one week from the deadline for raising the debt ceiling.
The current negotiations have been disheartening. The avoidance
of real negotiation in favor of maintaining hard positions is risky.
It is a new kind of brinkmanship that may depend on which side blinks first. Neither intends to blink.
In Minnesota we had about a two week shutdown which ended in a questionable agreement of shuffling obligations rather than long-term resolution.
At the national level, more is at risk including the future of our children and grandchildren.
Rational compromise is essential but not forthcoming. Alas.
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