That is the whole story, the rest of the article is simply irrelevant.
Posted on 02/01/2023 8:59:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In Washington, the fight over the debt limit tops the list of bipartisan messes. So let's blame both sides and finally get to work.
According to news reports, there are 24 GOP senators who want to do something. This is the story:
Nearly half of the Senate Republican Conference has signed on to a letter to President Biden warning they will not vote for any bill to raise the nation’s debt limit unless it’s connected to spending cuts to address the nation’s $31 trillion debt.
The letter, led by conservative Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Budd (R-N.C.), says it is the policy of the Republican conference that any increase in the debt ceiling must be accompanied by cuts in federal spending or “meaningful structural reform in spending.”
“We, the undersigned members of the Senate Republican Conference, write to express our outright opposition to a debt-ceiling hike without real structural spending reform that reduces deficit spending and brings fiscal sanity back to Washington,” the senators wrote.
They cited the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act, which would automatically provide continuing appropriations to fund government if Congress fails to pass spending legislation by the end-of-year deadline, and the Full Faith and Credit Act, which would prioritize federal payments in case Congress doesn’t raise the debt limit, as “meaningful structural reform.”
“We do not intend to vote for a debt-ceiling increase without structural reforms to address current and future fiscal realities, actually enforce the budget and spending rules on the books, and manage out-of-control government policies,” they wrote.
Since 24 is not 49 the minority leader did not sign it. However, 24 can stop legislation. Furthermore, Senator Joe Manchin is in trouble back home and voting with the Democrats will not help him this time around. He may rebuild his image in West Virginia by standing tall.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think what we really need is for other countries to stop buying our debt and that’s what’s coming pretty soon it’s not gonna matter how high the ceiling is
That is the whole story, the rest of the article is simply irrelevant.
"We'll let you spend more if you agree to spend less."
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This is all about courage and cowardice.
The solution is simple. Look at total revenue inflow. Spend less than that.
“Nearly half of the Senate Republican Conference has signed on to a letter to President Biden warning they will not vote for any bill to raise the nation’s debt limit unless it’s connected to spending cuts to address the nation’s $31 trillion debt.”
Nearly half, so LESS than half. Should be ALL of them!
Same old, same old. *SPIT*
Over half of republicans will do the same. Trump endorsed the same career politician leadership and these are the results.
That's the overriding issue that must be addressed. And since we're not going to address it, bankruptcy is inevitable. And bankruptcy is apparently the end game.
Decades ago the UN announced its intention to turn America into a 3rd world. They're winning.
"Senate Republican RINO Conference"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
All that minority Senate RINO Conference members and "power of the purse" House RINOs need to do to effectively exercise majority power to stop irresponsible raising of debt limit is to uphold their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution by publicly demanding an immediate end to unconstitutional federal taxing and spending.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
The bottom line...
All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.
If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.
In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.
Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.
So, the majority of Republican politicians don’t care about the overspending/debt problem.
Good to know, but not a surprise.
“The solution is simple. Look at total revenue inflow. Spend less than that.”
Instant worldwide depression like you’ve never seen in your life. This is like a person with a thousand porcupine needles in them, you can’t just jerk them all out at once, you’ll kill the patient.
Only 24 senators signed the letter?? I would like to see a detailed explanation as to why each of the non-signing Republicans failed to sign it.
Friend, our government is way past pump priming and into economic masturbation, where spending is them whacking off for the dopamine hit.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
Win the Internet today by naming the novel and author.
At least a few are pretending to.
They didn’t even bother to do that when they and Trump were running up the debt.
All real conservatives need to wake up. The National Debt under MAGA Trump:
Oops!
The graph doesn't show post-Trump, Democratic-manufactured crisis, constitutionally indefensible and unaccountable Green New Deal and foreign aid spending that I indicated in general in my previous post.
That being noted about the corrupt Democratic and RINO elite, what I like about Trump is this. Unlike Democrats unconstitutionally buying votes with taxpayer dollars, Trump always does his homework before he spends taxpayer dollars, including contingency planning.
It’s official: Trump’s tax cuts paid for themselves (1.23.23)
Why only 1/2 the GOP Senators???
That “unless” negates the whole exercise.
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