Debt Ceiling Deadline - August 2nd

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  1. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Exactly. And most Americans agree with you. The GOP is very clever. They have taken a non issue and made it into a bargaining chip. Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, 18 friggin times. Oh but now it's an issue.... Please.
     
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  2. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    Which comes out to every 6 months, yet, kicking the can down the road for 6 months is not an option Obama will consider.

    And we weren't 15 trillion in debt when Reagan was in office.
     
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  3. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    its not a non-issue. everything else is a non issue. we really really should spend less.
     
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  4. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    Most Americans agreed that Obamacare sucks. What's your point?
     
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  5. mobius481

    mobius481 Registered Member

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    At some point you have to say enough is enough. When you're running 400 billion dollar deficits, raising the debt ceiling is not that beg of a deal. When you project 10 trillion over ten years, it's a huge deal. Just because you borrowed money in the past doesn't mean it's always right to borrow money in the future. Who operates that way?
     
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  6. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Right, lets raise it again. And of course, once we raise the level we'll allow ourselves to go into debt, we can certainly count on Congress to not spend even more of this non-existent money they've just granted themselves. No matter if they do, they can just vote themselves the right to overspend by another trillion in six months.

    When does it become an issue? And when do we say "no more?"
     
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  7. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    I bet it wont be an issue when someone else is in the White House....

    It's just funny watching a bunch of people like Boehner, who voted for 2 wars, voted for all the bailouts, voted for the stimulus, voted to raise the debt ceiling a bunch of times, sit here and try to convince people that he and his cronies are the responsible ones. Yeah right. We got speaker of the house MC Hammer telling us he knows how to spend and not to spend.
     
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  8. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    you should stop thinking this way. every issue is not a chance for you to be a partisan hack.

    we should stop spending so much. it doesnt matter who says it or what they said before.
     
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  9. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    For how long . . . two weeks. Watch and learn.
     
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  10. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    It prevents any legislation! It prevents the GOP from doing any of their agenda either.

    This is a child's complaint.
     
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