Yes. We pay our creditors first. That is my understanding.
And money is flowing into D.C. from us.
But when was a “crisis” never not exploited by the Left?
I think the GOP is winning the shutdown battle, as each day this goes on and people realize the sky hasn’t falling, how stupid the liberals look. And now that bills have passed to allow furloughed workers to essentially get paid during the entire shutdown for doing nothing, that’s going to remove the biggest noticeable effect, and put more pressure on the libs to fund those “piecemail” bills the GOP has tried to passed in Congress. The cat is out of the bag that a shutdown is not the end of the world.
The same could be said about the debt ceiling. If we don’t raise it, but people realize the mandatory debt is being paid as well as the largest entitlement programs affecting the most Americans, there will be another realization that the “sky isn’t falling”, and the libs won’t be able to use this issue either for the forseeable future. This is why I think they trying to push Obama to commit an impeachable offense, because if Americans learn the debt ceiling doesn’t have to be raised to pay the debt, they won’t have this as an issue in the future to scare Americans.
I’m still not sure Boehner has the cajones to see this through the end. Sorry to say, the GOP has a history from snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Gosh yes, last time I looked Uncle Sugar was still sucking income and payroll taxes out of my paycheck.