This article is written by a fool who is pimping his own personal group “No More Red Ink”. At no point does he explain how we are to simply not raise the debt ceiling.
It has taken 2 years to get to this point. You cannot just shut this off overnight. I did not read in Farah’s piece where he explains how the GOP can possibly do this without collapsing the economy. They haven’t even had the opportunity to create a budget this year yet.
I am curious why there is so much animosity toward the GOP House and Senate when they are doing everything they promised so far. They even got an Obamacare vote in the Senate. Issa is investigating. The ceiling is going to have to be raised before the GOP will have time to start cutting.
You just want to hand Obama a blank check to continue destroying what’s left of our economy? They’d love your reasoning at DU. Let’s keep on doing what we’ve been doing the past two years!
Exactly the same excuse they had with the first stimulus under Bush and the second under obama. So let’s do it again hey..sure. Why not? So we will never have the courage to say no anymore - ever. That’s a never ending story. Here is billions we can cut overnight and get back to a sane economy. But I understand..the media won’t be happy and the gop hates when the media is not happy with them. Oh well...
There simply isn’t any connection between refusing to raise the debt limit and defaulting on debt repayment. This threat is a ploy by the administration to avoid hard choices.
There IS a direct link between refusing to prioritize expenditures and debt default. The only way that the US will default on its debt is if it CHOOSES to. Or, we could choose to cut spending somewhere.
If we are simply going to raise the debt ceiling every time we near it, then it is no ceiling at all, and we’d be better off honestly admitting it and repealing it entirely. Otherwise we simply and cynically maintain a total fiction.
LLS