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Should we be concerned about Jack Lew quietly raising debt ceiling $51 billion without a vote?
Patriot Action ^ | July 21, 2013 | Jerry McGlothlin

Posted on 07/22/2013 9:13:30 AM PDT by yoe

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Does the number $16.7 trillion ring a bell?

It's the debt ceiling. It's the line in the sand that must not be crossed.

And to protect that line we have a Republican Congress.

But that line has been crossed and not a peep out of Congress or the major news media.

Obama's unelected bureaucrat, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, just unilaterally hiked the national debt of the United States another $51 billion dollars.

And how did he do it? Simple. He just did it. No Senate. No Congress. No problem.

He simply called it a "standard set of extraordinary measures" that allows him continually raise the debt ceiling at will and borrow our way into oblivion.

If there is a single conservative Congressmen left in our Republic, will he please stand up?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; chriswallace; debtceiling; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; jacklew; obamarecession; obamataxincreases; sectreasury; treasury
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We need this Congress to address this and write new legislation.....
1 posted on 07/22/2013 9:13:30 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

The wonders of a fiat currency.


2 posted on 07/22/2013 9:17:32 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: DonaldC

Isn’t OBAMUNISM great???


3 posted on 07/22/2013 9:20:36 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: yoe
If a Conservative even DREAMED of circumventing the rules to THAT, on ANYTHING...Liberals would make him wake up and apologize in front of a firing squad!
4 posted on 07/22/2013 9:21:08 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: yoe
If there is a single conservative Congressmen left in our Republic, will he please stand up?

Checking the US House of Representatives...

 

 

 

Nope. None here.

5 posted on 07/22/2013 9:21:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: yoe

Treasury: Debt Has Been Exactly $16,699,396,000,000.00 for 56 Days
July 15, 2013 - 5:33 PM

- See more at:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/treasury-debt-has-been-exactly-1669939600000000-56-days#sthash.YFwWrD43.dpuf


6 posted on 07/22/2013 9:22:28 AM PDT by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: yoe

Without a vote? Are you kidding? This administration has already been doing that for 4½ years now. The rule of law is dead.


7 posted on 07/22/2013 9:22:37 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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DonaldC ~:" Obama's unelected bureaucrat, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, just unilaterally hiked the national debt of the United States another $51 billion dollars.
Does the number $16.7 trillion ring a bell? " He " DEEMED it " approved by Mr. Majestic !
8 posted on 07/22/2013 9:26:48 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: yoe

The lawless administration continues.


9 posted on 07/22/2013 9:27:00 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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Hoodat ~:" Without a vote? Are you kidding? This administration has already been doing that for 4½ years now. The rule of law is dead."

And exactly WHO IS COMPLAINING ??


Crickets ..., crickets ...,..
10 posted on 07/22/2013 9:31:35 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: yoe; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

11 posted on 07/22/2013 9:32:37 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

OVER REACH ??


12 posted on 07/22/2013 9:33:59 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: yoe

Either congress starts impeachment proceedings, or we no longer have three co-equal branches of government.

It really is *that* simple.


13 posted on 07/22/2013 9:35:52 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: yoe

More evidence of the Coup d’etat. There are no rules anymore. The Constitution is only a memory now. Accountability is dead. Have a nice day.


14 posted on 07/22/2013 9:37:14 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: yoe

Nah, no concern. Actually, there is no further need of Congress, save some money and send them home, they are irrelevant, transformation complete.


15 posted on 07/22/2013 9:38:01 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: yoe

Well, Congress would get involved if it wasn’t something they wanted as badly as Obastard. They are opposition in name only.


16 posted on 07/22/2013 9:38:31 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: yoe
"Standard extraordinary?"

-PJ

17 posted on 07/22/2013 9:40:57 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: yoe
Good afternoon.

Slightly off topic, but over the last 4+ years, I look and see the U.S. as Deutschland, circa 1940.

Oh, and to you guys and gals at the NSA: go reproduce asexually.

5.56mm

18 posted on 07/22/2013 9:42:11 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Blood of Tyrants

And the Republican Elite takes notes, wondering why they never thought of it, while dreaming about when they get their turn again...Right...Isn’t going to happen, and even if it did, it wouldn’t make a dimes worth of difference to us. They are all in it together.

Dear Lord, please share Your strength and guide us.
Tatt


19 posted on 07/22/2013 9:42:55 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: yoe
This whole Federal Government thingy is just for show. Nobody involved follows the laws anymore. Feigned outrage is all we get. Nothing will change because a majority of "We, the People" no longer care about anything other than getting handouts.

Look at all the supposed conservatives which arrive on the scene showing promise only to immediately embrace non-conservative positions. They too, are only concerned about continuing to ride the gravy train.

20 posted on 07/22/2013 9:49:24 AM PDT by Starstruck (With Government nothing ever changes............for the better.)
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