One asked me recently about the POTUS exercising his powers to pay the debt off with a trillion dollar coin, and also about an executive ordered gun law. As for the former, I'm not sure what the repercussions would be on the world market, but I believe it would be akin to the Chinese controlling their currency to remain viable as a manufacturing nation. This could be bad for our credit rating. On the other hand, Congress has had their chance to do the right thing. Since the formerly (G)OP controls the Congress, I would blame whatever measures POTUS feels that he has to take on the non-working members of Congress.
As for the gun law: because of the gun lobbies (particularly the NRA), nothing would ever pass Congress. If POTUS has to make an executive order to get SOMETHING done to at least attempt to quell the frequent slaughters, so be it. Lighting a fire under Congress to act may be the first attempt to restrict the lobby influences. After all, did we ever thing that the unions would lose their business strangling holds?
"If the Mayans have taught us anything, it's that if you don't finish something, it's not the end of the world."
College Cure
Two men sank into adjacent train seats after a long day in the city. One asked the other, "Your son go back to college yet?"
"Two days ago."
"Mine's a senior this year, so it's almost over. In May, he'll be an engineer. What's your boy going to be when he gets out of college?"
"At the rate he's going, I'd say he'll be about thirty."
"No, I mean what's he taking in college?"
"He's taking every penny I make."
"Doesn't he burn the midnight oil enough?"
"He doesn't get in early enough to burn the midnight oil."
"Well, has sending him to college done anything at all?"
"Sure has! It's totally cured his mother of bragging about him."
21st Century Marriage
I stopped at a florist shop after work to pick up roses for my wife.
As the clerk was putting the finishing touches on the bouquet, a young man burst through the door, breathlessly requesting a dozen red roses.
"I'm sorry," the clerk said. "This man just ordered our last bunch."
The desperate customer turned to me and begged, "May I please have those roses?"
"What happened?" I asked. "Did you forget your wedding anniversary?"
"It's even worse than that," he confided. "I crashed my wife's hard drive!"
An American in England
An American visiting in England asked at the hotel for the elevator.
The portiere looked a bit confused but smiled when he realized what the man wanted.
"You must mean the lift," he said.
"No," the American responded. "If I ask for the elevator I mean the elevator."
"Well," the portiere answered, "over here we call them lifts".
"Now you listen", the American said rather irritated, "someone in America invented the elevator."
"Oh, right you are sir," the portiere said in a polite tone, "but someone here in England invented the language."
Foreign Language
A mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacks them.
The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away.
"See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see why it's important to learn a foreign language?"
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