"Nice House, curb appeal, but no-one seems to be home..." (NH,NH) 

Part 1 of 3: Genesis to Exodus

To Have and to Hold-em: As in going full circle here, at least completing one...going from covering the Royals (who keep showing up in My Feed, due to Me following Them for a while, especially around the HUG extravaganza, and now I jest can't seem to be able to rid myself...). This, combined with the coverage of all the extravagant spending in Our own, U.S. House...becomes a natural 'pairing' in the context of Texas Hold-em, where a Royal Flush beats a Full House and every other hand of cards you acquired, gathered up, then, depending on the 'hand you were dealt' left you with either an un-cut diamond, or some-thing less attractive. But, in either case, you played them only after showing your best poker face...

House-holders to a House Broken: (or, if you'd rather, a so-called 'broken home'). Talk about going full circle, or going in circles, feeling encircled, with debt swirling all around you...As wa-y-y-y into the future, in a land not so far away, we come upon a soul survivor, one who has managed to not sell theirs (as in "selling out to pork barrel projects, add-ons, just to get this thing passed..."). A soul-full soloist who in turn comes upon the perennial "message in a bottle" (or, if you'd rather, just managed to dig up the other annual favorite, "time capsule"). The former of which managed to wash up on shore, with the briefest of messages "whoever is reading this well into the future is likely to be washed up yourself..." Some message of encouragement...NOT. The latter a collection of small things that could fit in such a space, such as what used to be passed off as coins...The survivor left with little or no-one to fully explain, answer "What the $$$$ were they thinking?!!! As they stand there, with the perennial pose of a lone survivor in what used to be portrayed in movies as a desert(ed) island -- an island, islet, or atoll, not permanently populated by humans, frequently featured in films and/or stories of ship-wrecked folks, or even used, according to a few photos in the capsule, as stereotypes of a paradise type of setting...a "paradise lost" in this case. As this message conveyed is a bit lost on the lone narrator, who can only look out from the shores of an otherwise vacant land, one where the once inviting sign "Vacancy" was a welcoming sign to vacationers...but here signaling a condition that did not happen overnight, but the result of actions, inactions of those who were in charge of the House and holders, as well as those who, every so often took a ho-hum attitude to mounting debt themselves, kept voting Them in, based on promises that the "budget will finally be balanced..." A condition and collection of behaviors that resulted in the inevitable condition of being "grossly overdrawn...nothing left to give..." Which then eventuated in all of Them being put on notice of "Eviction!" Signs of which are now abound. "So, what gives, the SS asks?"-- To no-one in particular... 

Come on back, to this land, for another post-humorous message, as in "blandish...banish...meant"