Since it doesn’t seem to make sense to Obama or all the moronic feds in DC, I’ll share with them how I deal with difficult times:

Last month, I spent less than what I brought in.  Yay, I have $100 to put into my savings account.
The month before that, I did the same but a little less left over.  Yay, I have $50 to put into my savings account.

This month, I had an unexpected expense of about $80.  Did I go borrow the money to pay for it?  No.  Did I dip into my savings to cover it?  Nope.  Did I work out some deal to pay it off over three months and thereby have to pay interest?  Nope.

This is what I did.  I looked around my house, found random household items that I could conceivably sell.  I came up with about 10.  I put them in order of which item is used the most and which is used the least.   I sold the item that is used the least for $90.  I paid my unexpected expense for $80 and put $10 into my savings account.

I came out ahead and will not miss the item that hadn’t been used in 3 years.

When I run out of stuff to sell, I’ll start prioritizing items as “absolutely necessary” and “I can live without”.  Then make cuts based on that.  You’d be surprised at what you can liquidate if you absolutely have to.

Stupid government.  This isn’t rocket science.  I’m not saying they should start selling couches and microwaves, but seriously, BORROW the money?  Are you kidding me?  Start slitting throats (figuratively you FBI snoops).  Cut every government program that isn’t specifically mentioned in the Constitution.  Once you’re done, we’ll have so much money, we could swim in green.

Oh, and start with abolishing the Federal Reserve and revert back to the gold standard under the authority Congress has.  The Federal Reserve is like the city contracting out the mayor’s budget office to a random executive in China.  One of the most unwise choices this country has ever made.