Treasury Secretary Lew: Raise the Debt Limit Now (by Mitch, Boehner and the Surrender Monkeys)

Newsmax ^ | March 6, 2015 | Newsmax Wires

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The U.S. will hit its debt limit on March 16 but with some "extraordinary measures" it will be able to fund the government on a temporary basis, according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who urged Congress in a letter to raise the debt limit immediately.

In the letter to House Speaker John Boehner and other House and Senate leaders, Lew said on March 13 his office would have to suspend the issuance of some local and and state securities, reports CNBC.

"Accordingly, I respectfully ask Congress to raise the debt limit as soon as possible," Lew wrote in his letter.

In the letter, Lew assured that increasing the debt limit did not necessarily mean approving new spending but instead allowed the federal government to pay for existing expenses.

His letter came on the heels of a a Congressional Budget Office report Tuesday that said if the U.S. federal debt limit is not raised, the U.S. Treasury Department will exhaust all of its borrowing capacity and run out of cash in October or November, slightly later than a previous forecast. Normal U.S. borrowing authority under the debt limit is due to expire on March 15. If Congress fails to raise or extend the debt limit, Treasury will need to begin employing extraordinary cash management measures to continue borrowing.

It estimated that the Treasury's extraordinary measures, which range from suspending investments in government employee pension funds to halting sales of debt securities to state and local governments, would provide nearly $363 billion in additional borrowing capacity.

Once that capacity is exhausted, CBO said the borrowing cap "would ultimately lead to delays of payments for government activities, a default on the government's debt obligations, or both."

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“Imagine how much the banks will make in interest on $18 trillion of debt when the interest rates move from their current 25 basis points (0.25) to 300 basis points (3%). This will happen after the Fed ceases QE.”

We won’t be able to finance the dept end of story, and Congress will proably vote to end the Federal Reserve to directly print money and finance it’s dept. Either way your looking at major long term inflation.