It's A Problem, Mr President

"So throw some money at it."

People tend to see money as the universal problem-solver.

It isn't.

You can pay people to grapple with the problem for you. Money is something you can use to buy tools and hire a mechanic, but money itself don't fix nothin'.

Weirdly - or maybe so weirdly - when you throw as much money at the problem as you think you need, then you get to pretend you solved the problem.

You didn't.

Maybe the people who got paid to do the work solved it for you, but you sure as fuck didn't.

And as likely as not - especially when we're talking Geopolitics - you end up making the problem worse.

Trump is transactioning this joint right over the fuckin' cliff - as he has always done with everything he's ever tried.

BTW, Trump - the great business brain - the all-powerful deal maker - Mr Cost-Containment - has already added more than $2,230,000,000,000 to the national debt.

$2.23 Trillion

Try writing that on a check

Two-trillion, two hundred-twenty-three billion & no/100ths