If the rating services were being honest about governments (top to bottom) they’d either have to move out of the country or be persecuted into bankruptcy by this administration (and all its enablers, like Congress, voters, etc.)

Question: I wonder what the tipping point of Obhammed’s illegal “Executive Fiat” campaign will be before the public wakes up and realizes what a fascist society we have allowed ourselves to become?

Her musings were suddenly interrupted when her date asked a decidedly unromantic question: “What’s your credit score?”
“It was as if the music stopped,” Ms. LaShawn, 31, said, recalling how the date this year went so wrong so quickly after she tried to answer his question honestly. “It was really awkward because he kept telling me that I was the perfect girl for him, but that a low credit score was his deal-breaker.”

If the US government was trying to date, it would be destined to be a spinster.

In other words, Obama doesn’t give a damn about shrinking the deficit in the least;

No, really????

What you’re missing is the central premise here: he, like all leftists, cares about one thing and one thing only: power. To get that power, he thinks he needs to subsidize his cronies, but it’s also necessary to reduce the population to a mass of sniveling sheep totally dependent on the government for everything. And that requires tons of handouts and a huge entitlement-inspired debt. You think the Obamaphones grow on trees? Hey, transforming America into a mind-numbed collection of zombies who think The State is responsible for providing everything they want costs a bundle!