Zeus Offers His Two Cents on the Debt Ceiling Crisis

Same debate, different decade.

4 min readMar 11

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Author’s late dog Zeus

A slightly edited excerpt from the Travels With Zeus blog originally published by the author in July of 2011, during an earlier debt ceiling debate.

Zeus and I followed our usual routine this morning. After making myself a cup of coffee, I took him out for his morning pee and patrol around the…

Craig Axford

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M.A. in Environment and Management and undergraduate degrees in Anthropology & Environmental Studies. Living in Moab, Utah. A generalist, not a specialist.

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