America Comes Unglued

As the month of October comes to an end, the United States of America, which prides itself in many ways as being all-powerful, self-important, and essential to the welfare of the entire planet, has become a woeful laughingstock, its federal government unable to fund itself, a president who boasts of deals with foreign nations that purport to solve issues he created, and, with funding for SNAP, otherwise known as food stamps, expired, 40 million of its citizens are about to go hungry in a country that has an abundance of food.

The problems with which America has saddled itself are completely self-made, manufactured, and entirely avoidable. The federal government can borrow as much money as it wants from the Federal Reserve, which conjures it up out of thin air. The Senate simply does not want the government funded at present. They would rather pretend to be arguing over which party is screwing the taxpayers the most than doing the jobs they were elected to do. They have failed, as too, the president.

A government that cannot balance its books and at the same time cannot agree to legislation to keep itself operating is one not worth having. Should the Senate fail to agree, over the next few days, on a package to at least fund itself for a few months time, the effects will be immediate; the repercussions will be felt for years. The continuous wrangling and bickering over short-term solutions - a practice that has been ongoing for decades - is significant in showing the rest of the world how utterly incompetent, petty, and uncaring the elected officials of the United States really are.

There's nothing good about the now month-long government shutdown except possibly serving as a wake-up call to the people of America. The drama in Washington serves no useful purpose. Should the shutdown continue into November and possibly longer, chaos and anarchy will ensue, and then, what? Martial law? Is that the ultimate purpose of the fakery and foolery at the highest levels of government?

It may be so. America and the world is about to find out.

The conditions extant in the United States are horrific. The currency is a mirage. The government a circus. The media all propaganda. The system of checks and balances overwrought. The constitution, having been trampled upon by countless presidents, legislators, and members of the judiciary for decades, a sad remnant from better days.

While much of the country is anxious over the developments - or lack thereof - in the nation's capital, the denizens of lower Manhattan rejoice in the supremely high valuations of publicly-held corporations, their gizmos, inventions, products, and services the envy of the world. Of course, Wall Street itself is something of a fantasy, with indices and stock prices gerrymandered by big banks and brokerages, up, down, and every other which way, as they please.

The month of October, 2025 will be remembered, if Americans are lucky, as the month in which the government ceased to exist and Wall Street threw a party to celebrate its demise.

Good luck out there. You're going to need it.

At the Close, Thursday, October 30, 2025:
Dow: 47,522.12, -109.88 (-0.23%)
NASDAQ: 23,581.14, -377.33 (-1.57%)
S&P 500: 6,822.34, -68.25 (-0.99%)
NYSE Composite: 21,451.00, -74.93 (-0.35%)