Main Street Economics Founder Les Rubin Blasts Washington Over Looming Government Shutdown

Warns That Partisan Games Threaten America’s Financial Future

WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 30, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Main Street Economics a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing economic education to the American public is sounding the alarm, condemning Washington’s failure to put the American people ahead of partisan brinkmanship, as Congress once again barrels toward a government shutdown.

“Shutdown. Really? What is wrong in DC? They play partisan games while America suffers,” said Les Rubin, Founder of Main Street Economics. “Even a simple extension of the current fiscal disaster they perpetrated upon ‘We the People’ cannot get bipartisan support. What they are really saying is, ‘let’s hold out and spend more trillions that we don’t have.’ Is the goal to bankrupt America? If it isn’t, they are doing a good imitation.”

Rubin, a longtime advocate for fiscal responsibility and author of Why You Should Give a Damn About Economics, argues that the dysfunction in Congress has placed America’s economy in grave danger. More recently, in his co-authored book The Greatest Ponzi Scheme on Earth: How the US Can Avoid Economic Collapse, Rubin contends that Washington’s reliance on perpetual borrowing is indistinguishable from a Ponzi scheme—expanding debt to cover the costs of past obligations. His message is simple: we are running out of runway, and the time to act is now.

“Congress, get off your duff and fix this mess. First, keep our government open. Then quit the partisan BS and do what is needed for fiscal sanity in this country,” Rubin continued. “If you don’t, our Ship of State, the USS Titanic, is headed to the iceberg while Congress carefully rearranges the deck chairs.”

Leaders cannot keep pretending that endless borrowing has no consequences. But every family knows you can’t live forever on credit cards.

Main Street Economics has long warned about America’s unsustainable debt trajectory and the risks of short-term budgetary fixes. Rubin believes that the current standoff highlights a political system unwilling to make hard choices for the nation’s long-term health. America cannot keep piling up trillions in debt without facing a day of reckoning.

“It’s time for leadership and courage—not more posturing and spending,” Rubin concluded.

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