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1. A short term agreement doesn't count and will result in a rating downgrade.
2. Making payments on the debt will happen after August 2 and that is sufficient to avoid immediate default and the threat of a downgrade.

It is implied that they agree with the Tea party. So those who think the Tea Party are a bunch of heavy brow, knuckle dragging mouth breathers who don't get basic facts are wrong. The people who have been saying that Boehner is failing us are enlightened beacons of objective truth.
1 posted on 07/30/2011 10:06:21 AM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

Look at the unsustainable spending by government:

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/

And look at Social Expenditures (aka, welfare state) growth. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 07/30/2011 10:11:00 AM PDT by whitedog57
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

Go figure.


3 posted on 07/30/2011 10:11:21 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We need to fix things ourselves)
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi
NO DEBT INCREASE!force the obumbum administration and his socialist ilk to live within the budget. This will require him to shelve a bunch of his social programs he wants and is willing to borrow even more money from the Communist Chinese to fund them!

NO MORE DEBT INCREASES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 posted on 07/30/2011 10:14:02 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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Moody’s says US should retain top credit rating
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2756225/posts

somebody is not being truthful


5 posted on 07/30/2011 10:17:12 AM PDT by EBH ( God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

The AAA rating is a lie, anyway. Anyone, country, etc. who runs their finances the way our government does doesn’t deserve a high rating.

Wondering who is getting paid off or pressure being put on whom too keep it at AAA. Fools are anyone who believes that everything is peachy. AAA = peachy.

Didn’t we learn from the banking collapse of a couple of years ago? Misrepresentation of loans and assets created the banking collapse. And we continue the same with our Federal budget and debt.

FOOLS!


6 posted on 07/30/2011 10:19:31 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

The rating services seemed to start all this sturm und drang about the collapse of the world as we know it IF CONGRESS DIDN’T ACCEPT THE DEMS POLICY.

Now, having looked into the abyss they have created, they seem to be pulling back from the edge and saying, “ Hey, fellows, we were only kidding. Life will go on.”


7 posted on 07/30/2011 10:20:03 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

>>Neither debt plan protects the nation’s AAA rating<<

I file that under “No sh!t Sherlock.”

That’s why I’e been down on BOTH parties on this so hard.


9 posted on 07/30/2011 10:22:46 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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The jackasses at S & P and Moody’s wouldn’t dare screw with America’s credit rating. This crap is just a bunch of commie BS used to scare the old folks into demanding that Barry and his Socialists are allowed to steal more of other people’s money. The boys at S&P and Moody’s are smart enough to know that if you screw around with America’s rating, the entire global economy goes into the toilet. They wouldn’t risk it with their stupid “rating”. Sorry boys, you and your “credit ratings” don’t scare me. This credit rating crap is all politics, IMHO!


11 posted on 07/30/2011 10:27:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Barry! Compromise this!!!)
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi
The rating agencies serve a function, of course. Sometimes they serve it much better than at other times. They are frequently late in their assessment of risk.

Let me be perfectly blunt. Anyone who buys U. S. Government bonds in the notion that they are as secure as an alertly rated AAA Corporate Bond from a country with sounder monetary policy, is naive in the extreme. With the Keynesian monetization of the out of control Federal debt, the only question is how soon, the purchaser takes a terrible bath.

I suspect, that were it not for fear of the rancor they might expect from the political establishment, the rating agencies would long ago have dropped the triple A rating to something far lower. The rhetoric coming out of the Administration on the subject is designed to panic people who simply do not recognize from whence comes the real threat, or the extent of what those in this Administration have already achieved in destroying the wealth of rooted Americans.

As for the Administration's argument on taxation, note how much damage has already been done to American reserves by a Capital Gains Tax, not indexed to inflation: Capital "Gains".

The Founding Fathers would clearly have deemed this stealing. So do I.

William Flax

12 posted on 07/30/2011 10:27:57 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

CCB.

Pass it, or lose the AAA rating.


13 posted on 07/30/2011 10:28:05 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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Moody will do anything to support getting and keeping the communists takeover of America.


14 posted on 07/30/2011 10:45:09 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

Ratings Agencies are like the fake “Fact-Check.com” websites. They all work for the Bankers. Ha Ha Fools!


23 posted on 07/30/2011 12:10:38 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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it is very interesting that the very agencies which played major, major roles in the economic downfall, now decide whether or not we start climbing out of the abyss.
25 posted on 07/30/2011 1:33:49 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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