if the creditworthiness of the United States is not negotiable, then pay down some of the d***ed debt for a change!
Have him ask the Fed for it, they are already creating $85 billion/mo that we will never pay off, what’s another trillion here or there?
Keep those printing presses rolling!!! Soon inflation will be so bad that we will be looking at ten dollar/gallon gas. Which is just what the Progressives want anyway.
Not raising the debt limit has NO direct one-to-one relationship to whether or not the U.S. pays it’s debt obligations.
In fact, if the federal government wants to keep the U.S. credit rating where it is it is STILL obligated to pay off any debt coming due and any interest payments on debt that is due, whether or not the debt limit is raised.
Keeping the U.S. credit rating up, when revenue is tight, can be solved by cutting expenses more, without any raising of the debt limit.
Lew is not that much of an idiot, but he expects a majority of the public is ignorant of just what can be done to pay our debt obligations WITHOUT any raising of the debt limit.