“I’ve just received word that the president has dissolved Congress permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.”
The 14th amendment does not allow the Traitorjoe and the Demonicrats to negate the Constitution and give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Stop playing with the debt “ceiling”. Why have one if you keep raising it?
Section 4 - The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
Section 5 - The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Congress, not the President, enforces. They retain the power of the purse. The House passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling already. If it fails that is on the Senate Democrats and the President.
Artificial intelligence is sorely needed in D C. The natural kind is lacking.
The 14th Amendment means that we must honor the debt, not raise more debt. Nor does failing to raise the debt limit mean default. In other words, debt payments come first, then appropriations. If there is not enough money, then appropriations must be cut in order to pay the debt. If we were to cut the size and activity of the federal government to only that which is authorized by the Constitution we would have more than enough money to pay the debt.
Tina? Tee hee hee.
The only time these leftists even read the Constitution is when they are looking for loopholes. You don’t actually expect them to actually understand it or respect its intent, do you?
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Well, I've seen no vote in Congress about an insurrection or rebellion against the United States - certainly nothing validating wiping out the nation debt (see the following section of this amendment).
Point is (without going through the math), if #46 tries this, it'll make the $ virtually worthless within a week; when U.S. bond holders dump those holdings.
The 14th Amendment empowers THE CONGRESS to enforce the validity of all debts legally incurred by the US.
It doesn’t empower the President to do anything.
Personally I’m still waiting on the infamous trillion dollar coin scheme.
That about sums it up.
Where does the Constitution say it’s okay to rack up trillions in debt you don’t have?
Its good to be king.
More evidence of the need to repeal the 17th Amendment!
Go back to what the Founding Fathers intended the Senate to represent - the States! The people are represented by the House. Anyway, State legislatures couldn’t make worse choices in their selections for the Senate the clowns now there!
Typical dems focusing on one small sentence of the entire amendment and making it mean something that it really doesn’t. Good grief ... have they even read the entire amendment?
My importance: SSA
Some, such as legal scholar Garrett Epps, fiscal expert Bruce Bartlett and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, have argued that a debt ceiling may be unconstitutional and therefore void as long as it interferes with the duty of the government to pay interest on outstanding bonds and to make payments owed to pensioners (that is, Social Security and Railroad Retirement Act recipients).[217][218]
We could eliminate half of all staff who get a Fed paycheck. End the existence of half the alphabet agencies and put their assets up for auction. Drill for oil, sell it and buy gold. End all subsidies. Give all able-bodied takers 90 days to find work. Stop foreign aid. Outfit a 737 platform for AF 1. Sell Fed lands to the states.
Most states have a constitutional requirement to balance the budget.
We would do well to do that on the Fed level.
Support among Demon Rats.