Plenty Of Nothing Isn't Okay With Me

OK, I'll be the first to admit that I really don't understand how the U.S. avoided a catastrophic economic meltdown by passing a measure that raises the government's capacity to borrow more ("debt ceiling"). But, based on the 266 points the DOW just plummeted, apparently Wall Street agrees with me that if the federal government were in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.