Well if taxes are sure fire way to cause job losses, than it just begs the question on whether the current Washington debt deal is a job killer? After all, since the Feds are the only ones spending cash these days, will it really help to cut federal spending even more? Well the GOP seems to think so. In fact, the Tea Party zealots fought long and hard over the weekend for massive federal spending and no tax increases. They also fought for maintaining very unpopular corporate tax loopholes. Now we might need to call in the big gun economist across the country for this one but hey aren't we still in a recession? Last i checked, unemployed surpasses 9%. Last i checked, there were 14 million people hanging out in unemployment lines.

When was the last time so many people have been unemployed, with no hope in sight? Try the 1930s - hey wasn't that around the same time as the Great Depression? Gee I thought so. Didn't the country get out of the hole through the vision and spending of the Feds? Naw - hogwash so sayeth the GOP, we got out of that hole based on good luck and timing - yea that's it. Well from the looks of it referring to history as a example of how to manage this economic crisis is not necessary - just look to the wisdom of GOP. Who knows after the Feds are totally out of cash, maybe instead of an additional 5 - 6 million people being added to the ranks of unemployed and jobless, that instead we will magically see job growth thanks to the goodwill of corporations. Yea that's it. Why not just shut down the Feds altogether and rely on the goodwill of big corporations like say BP. Way to go GOP. So is the debt deal a job killer - according to the Tea Party rebels absolutely not. We'll get by somehow.

Hurry right up, come and get your US debt default survival guide. Believe me when i tell you if/when it happens you'll need to be prepared. So let't cut to the chase, pack light just three things:

1. 8x10 framed picture of GOP mafia - Who? none other than, Boehner and Cantor skinning and grinning from ear to ear. These two will undoubtedly delight themselves in winning the battle at the expense of the war. Of course it doesn't matter that they will have single handedly caused just as much if not more Americans to enter the rank of unemployed and jobless than the so called Great Recession. You'll undoubtedly want to thank them each and every moment of your waking hours going forward.
2. A shovel - Make sure you stop on by your neighborhood Lowes or HomeDepot and pick up a good heavy duty shovel. You'll need it to dig out your final resting place in your backyard. Surely, you won't want to delay in this purchase as shovels will sell out fast. So getting a head start at digging your own grave would mean you just might finish the job before your bank issues a foreclosure notice on your home. This is, of course, since you likely won't have a job, if you have one now, when employers can no longer afford to borrow at sky high interest rates, even with stellar credit. Oh and if you don't already have a job, forget it. Don't even bother looking for one com August 2nd, 2011, instead you might want to get a head start on the digging.
3. Mother in-law's Christmas gift - Sure you hated it and it served no practical use except to satisfy a check mark on a Christmas list; but now that the end is near that worthless tie or trinket is starting to look good. Besides, just in case you underestimate how long it will take for you to run out of oxygen in the wooden box of your makeshift grave, you can have something to remember what life was like before Boehner and Cantor ushered in your last days. So you can take both your 8x10 of the GOP mafia and your mother in-laws worthless gift and remember the good ole' days while you wait to die in your poor cheap wooden box.

There you have it, the US debt default survival guide. It's sure to bring peace to your final days. Of course, living out your natural life gainfully employed would have been better but Boehner and Cantor believed otherwise. Sorry Charlie.