Last question. Would you support an immediate real dollar cut for a dollar raise in the debt ceiling?
No.
If the cuts were real, there would be no need for any rise in the debt ceiling.
Cut every program or agency that is not explicitly within the Enumerated Powers. The budget will balance.
I’ll repeat what I’ve been saying since January:
Every single vote to contract debt that our generation cannot possibly pay is a vote for the enslavement of our grandchildren. It is the stripping of our posterity’s God-given right to self-government by consent.
A yes vote to raise the debt ceiling is an unmistakable signal to already-overburdened Americans that all the campaign rhetoric about fiscal restraint was merely empty talk.
I urge every member of Congress to instead move quickly to cut spending, beginning with the vast number of programs and agencies that are not among the Enumerated Powers contained in our Constitution, which they swore to faithfully support and defend. We the People must demand that they keep their word and fulfill the ultimate stated purpose of that precious document by securing the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity.
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution ... taking from the federal government their power of borrowing."-- Thomas Jefferson (Letter of November 26th, 1798)