a shot, and then vanished again into thin air, leaving behind no trace of himself, his rifle, his bullet or any other sign of existence? there were two groups of people. there s one group that will look at an extraordinary coincidence, a cataclysmic circumstance and say yes, that s the way the world works. there s another group of people for whom that s quite unsettling. they don t want to believe that something so random could have occurred. can you believe that you could step off a curb someday and be killed by an oncoming car? nobody believes in that kind of possibility for themselves, but it happens. is life that fortuitous, that uncertain? and for them, oddly, the notion of a conspiracy is more comforting than the absence of it. because if there s a conspiracy, at least there s a plan. i think the five bullets
we re concerned about the government being closed. i didn t want to be here in the beginning. i ve been advocating more talk on a weekly basis when we re not going deadline to deadline. i ve been advocating a bipartisan lunch for a year and a half now on a regular basis and we talk about the problems. i want to play you an international group talking about what would happen if next thursday is the day, if next thursday the congress has failed to lift the debt ceiling. take a listen. we have a real deadline with potentially, you know, cataclysmic consequences. to raise the debt ceiling would cause serious damage to the u.s. economy but also to the global economy. zbh i know some people on wall street that are telling me that
think could whip those votes if they wanted to. right now everyone s invested in the brinksmanship. you re seeing a lot of conservative voices doing a debt ceiling denial dance. the left is saying it s a cataclysm saying the world is going to end. this presidency has become the chicken little presidency where if we don t do it his way we re going to go straight to h-e double toothpicks. there are experts who think that using words like cataclysmic are not appropriate. i just, it raises the question,
compromise is a third. if you re only three votes short, why not put it forward. think could whip those votes if they wanted to. right now everyone s invested in the brinksmanship. you re seeing a lot of conservative voices doing a debt ceiling denial dance. the left is saying it s a cataclysm saying the world is going to end. this presidency has become the chicken little presidency where if we don t do it his way we re going to go straight to h-e double toothpicks. there are experts who think that using words like cataclysmic are not appropriate.
i think the disruption would be quite modest. three, four weeks, that becomes meaningful. that s enough to slow the economy down to zero growth in the current quarter. of course if it lasts six or eight weeks, that means in all likelihood the congress and administration didn t come together on the debt limit. breaching the debt limit, that would be cataclysmic. so they have to get it together. the damage will mount day by day. i think it is important to use that word cataclysmic. in washington, they ll be one big thing. just a few weeks, your number, a quarter of a trillion dollars. huge dollar amounts. can you put that in english? a quarter of a trillion dollars. what happens? what does that mean? well, that means a lot of economic activity. it means a lot of people s incomes will be lower. that means people are not. if you have a government