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AthlonSavage
reply to post by Indigo5
The crack up thing is this passed bill only allows treasury to keep borrowing until Feb next year. Then the whole thing happens again.
Indigo5
abacus10
NO THEY DID NOT VOTE FOR DEFAULT, THEY VOTED FOR ZERO INCREASE IN THE DEBT CEILING.
The ONLY long term solution is for Obama to stop squandering cash and balance the budget, but it is one that he refuses to consider even to exist.
Nothing personal...But please review civics 101. Congress holds the purse-strings. They spend the money and balance the budget. Whatever your political leanings, falling victim to propagandist rhetoric doesn't do you any good.
Indigo5
abacus10
NO THEY DID NOT VOTE FOR DEFAULT, THEY VOTED FOR ZERO INCREASE IN THE DEBT CEILING.
The ONLY long term solution is for Obama to stop squandering cash and balance the budget, but it is one that he refuses to consider even to exist.
Nothing personal...But please review civics 101. Congress holds the purse-strings. They spend the money and balance the budget. Whatever your political leanings, falling victim to propagandist rhetoric doesn't do you any good.
Indigo5
reply to post by Krazysh0t
I don't care about the enrollment numbers. Not sure why you do?
damwel
I'm sure some of you would have been happier if you could have said, "Well we sunk the USA, caused a worse recession than Bush BUT we sure showed that Obama".
Tardacus
wasn`t it congress who voted and passed all these laws and other things that require money to pay for them? and now that the time has come to pay for the things that they enacted they don`t want to.
When congress was running up the debt by passing all these laws and programs where did they think the money was going to come from to pay for all that stuff? considering we are already running a deficit every year.
congress is fully to blame for the country`s financial woes,they continue to commit us to more spending and more debt without the slightest thought as to how they are going to pay for all of it.
ownbestenemy
For instance, as it stands now with this current bill, the President can, via executive order, raise the debt limit so long as the Legislative branch does not oppose it. Even then, if they so do oppose it, it is subjected to a veto.
macman
reply to post by Indigo5
Looks like a list of those that want responsible spending in the Govt. You know, the same Govt that taxes the citizens to pay for crap the Govt says we need.
On their 22nd try, Senate Democrats on Wednesday got a deal with Republicans to hold a budget conference committee with the House.
Setting up the conference is a part of the deal the Senate approved Wednesday to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.
Previous attempts by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to get unanimous consent for the conference were thwarted by a handful of Republicans.
macman
NO ONE, NO BUSINESS and NO ORGANIZATION pushed for more credit while working to pay down debt.
Krazysh0t
reply to post by Indigo5
Wait, Obama hasn't passed a budget his entire Presidency and you are blaming this on the Republicans?
In Obama’s case, he has submitted his budget request each year he has been in office.
On their 22nd try, Senate Democrats on Wednesday got a deal with Republicans to hold a budget conference committee with the House.
Setting up the conference is a part of the deal the Senate approved Wednesday to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.
Previous attempts by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to get unanimous consent for the conference were thwarted by a handful of Republicans.