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It’s just that the debt ceiling isn’t the place to make a stand.

The debt ceiling is the only leverage the Reps have. There is always another excuse to avoid a confrontation with Obama. We got sequestration in 2011 with the debt ceiling. Reagan got Gramm-Rudman. Now we can't even get the military pension cut restored or the keystone pipeline.

So where and when do we make a stand?

We’ve got to stop running up the credit card bills, not just ignore the statements when they come due.

Again, the biggest drivers of our debt are SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and other so called mandatories. They don't go thru the budget process. They are on automatic pilot.

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Again, the biggest drivers of our debt are SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and other so called mandatories. They don't go thru the budget process. They are on automatic pilot.

So.

Let's.

Change.

That.

Playing games with the deft ceiling doesn't fix that either. It won't stop a single penny from being run up at the cash register, it'll only mean that we default on our credit card bills. Which will have a disastrous effect on our economy, not to mention waste millions of additional taxpayer dollars.

That's not fiscally responsible. That's not conservative. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I agree that we need to stop the spending. But the way we do that is... stop the spending. Not by making the United States a deadbeat.