EBH: “Keep trying to fund the portions of the government...”
Agreed. It may well be that President Obama wants a default regardless of what the Republicans do. Nevertheless, raising the debt limit is probably the right thing to do. That doesn’t have to include giving in to Democrat demands for a “clean” CR. Republicans need to prove we’re not trying to tear it all down overnight. As you wrote, they can continue to pass bills that fund essential portions of the government.
I’m impatient for a return to constitutional governance, but it took nearly a century to build this federal behemoth. We can’t just walk in and act like we want to destroy it overnight. This beast is going to take time to unravel, and we need political majorities to do that. We’ve got to be the party of responsible government!
raising the debt limit is probably the right thing to do
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I don’t mean to sound contrary, but we are already closing in on a nominal $17 trillion debt. And that does not count the unfunded liabilities of $126 trillion. (Your share of that liability as a taxpayer is over $1 million.) And now we’re going to increase the debt again, probably close to another trillion.
Is raising the debt limit the right thing to do when we have to borrow more money to make the interest payments? When does this dangerous insanity stop?
The truth is nobody wants to deal with the debt becuase its a painful problem. Kick the can down the road and let it explode on someone else’s watch.
We have taxed, borrowed, and printed money to fund the federal behemoth and are reaching the limits of all three. We are facing a catastrophic implosion if we don’t get the debt under control soon.