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Would Geithner Be Content With A Debt Ceiling Raise Just Enough To Avoid Defaulting...
4/30/2011 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist

Posted on 04/30/2011 1:44:17 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

... that is, just enough to pay the interest payment? He says that it must be raised to avoid defaulting, so surely this is all he wants, right? If he were to say that more is needed, then he really is fearmongering for more massive borrow-and-spend. Boehner could agree to voting for just enough of a raise in exchange for a balanced budget amendment vote. If Dems don't good along they put then country at risk of defaulting


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: geithner; obama; taxes

1 posted on 04/30/2011 1:44:25 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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Surely this is all Geithner wants... /s.


2 posted on 04/30/2011 1:46:20 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

If the ceiling is raised, they will take that as free reign to spend spend spend spend spend.


3 posted on 04/30/2011 1:47:10 PM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

>Would Geithner Be Content With A Debt Ceiling Raise Just Enough To Avoid Defaulting...

No, because they will still spend money that they don’t have and then we’ll have another “Debt Ceiling Raise Just Enough To Avoid Defaulting” ad infinitum.


4 posted on 04/30/2011 1:47:50 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Darksheare

But what if its raised by only around $200 billion, enough tomake the interest payment?


5 posted on 04/30/2011 1:49:31 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

They will see it as approval to spend 400 billion.
Remember, it was the Dems and Nancy Pelosi who said that you had to increase spending to pay for a tax cut back when Bubba Gump was in office.
They also currently claim you can spend your way to prosperity.


6 posted on 04/30/2011 1:51:15 PM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Geitner is being flat out dishonest on this issue. The debt ceiling could be frozen and we would not default. We would have money to pay the necessary bills, we would just have to cut back (a lot) in other areas.

The politicians in both parties do not want to cut spending -- that is why they will raise the debt ceiling: they INTEND to take us further into debt.

7 posted on 04/30/2011 1:51:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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But Obama says that we must learn to live within our means. Surely then GOP would hold him tour his words.


8 posted on 04/30/2011 1:51:59 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: ClearCase_guy

That is what I am getting at...


9 posted on 04/30/2011 1:52:54 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks Laissez-faire capitalist.
He says that it must be raised to avoid defaulting, so surely this is all he wants, right? If he were to say that more is needed, then he really is fearmongering for more massive borrow-and-spend.

10 posted on 04/30/2011 2:02:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The government collects $150 billion in taxes a month after interest payments.

The government spends $260 billion in taxes a month.

Cut $110 billion. EPA, DOE, HUD, the three initial departments that can disappear are endless.


11 posted on 04/30/2011 2:15:05 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Current revenues are sufficient to pay the interest on the debt without default. If this were not so, we would already be in default. Current revenues are not sufficient to pay the interest payments AND pay for all the other programs/obligations already on the Federal plate. This is why we have a yearly deficit. Without a debt ceiling increase, program cuts across the board will be forced, which Congress is obviously loathe to do themselves. I believe that is EXACTLY what should happen.

The only reason they want to raise the debt ceiling is to BORROW/SPEND MORE MONEY.

It is as simple as that!


12 posted on 04/30/2011 2:48:14 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Tim, it’s Visa on the phone again for you...


13 posted on 04/30/2011 2:57:43 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Raising the debt ceiling has absolutely positively NOTHING to do with defaulting on our debt. Capisce?
14 posted on 04/30/2011 3:01:57 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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Couldn't we dismiss enough Federal employees so that the savings matches the interest payment?

ML/NJ

15 posted on 04/30/2011 3:06:51 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Shouldn’t Republicans be lowering the debt ceiling?

Why is the argument about (how much) to raise it?

Lower it. Then keep lowering it.


16 posted on 04/30/2011 3:09:23 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Birther on Board)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

But what if its raised by only around $200 billion, enough tomake the interest payment?
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Why? Let the gov’t spend the $400B in unspent TARP funds .. that should give them enough time to layoff/fire 20% of the fedgov workforce...


17 posted on 04/30/2011 3:44:57 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Simple, balance this year’s budget...no debt ceiling increase needed!
As others have said, potential default has nothing to do with the debt ceiling...current tax revenues are vastly more than enough to cover current interest payments.


18 posted on 04/30/2011 3:55:43 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Maybe I am Stupid, but it seems to me that if you REFUSE TO BORROW ANY MORE MONEY, ie. not raise the debt ceiling, That is, By Default, a BALANCED BUDGET. So why in the hell do we need some silly “Balanced Budget Amendment”???????


19 posted on 04/30/2011 5:40:03 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: struggle

“Cut $110 billion. EPA, DOE, HUD, the three initial departments that can disappear are endless.”

A good start and don’t forget to add the Dept of Education to that.


20 posted on 04/30/2011 9:32:15 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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