Democrats must call the Republicans bluffs on this issue, their simply isn’t any way the serious Republicans will allow the default of the U.S. Treasury!

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

Barack Obama 2006

Democrats must call the bluffs of Republicans on this issue, their simply isn’t any way the serious Republicans will allow the default of the U.S. Treasury!

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Stupid poll question.

Of course most Americans think it is unwise to go more into debt when you can’t pay the bills you already have.

Too bad this issue is much more complex than that.

One party understands that we can’t keep borrowing and spending. One doesn’t want to acknowledge reality. But the vast majority of the public understands that this crazy spending spree can’t continue.

But the Left will never learn. Did you follow the reactions of the Left in Spain, Greece, etc.? In every instance, the Left continues to spend borrowed money until the very bitter end — until the reach the point that no one will lend them another cent. And what do they do at that point? They riot and complain and gripe. There approach to fiscal issues is so infantile as to beggar belief.

The same will happen in the U.S. The Left will never agree to fiscal responsibility. And if the Republicans don’t take charge and stop them, they will borrow and spend until the whole think blows up in a financial fiasco of unprecedented proportions.

Welcome to liberal economics, where you just ignore reality until you are bankrupt. Sort of like the old Soviet Union and North Korea and Cuba and Allende’s Chile…and all the other places where far left economics has been allowed to play out until its natural conclusion.

We better not raise the debt ceiling too high, it might poke a hole in the ozone, thereby causing more global warming. Why does the left want to harm the environment?

“71% of Americans are against raising the ceiling.”

The other 29% are freeloaders and assume their descendants will be freeloaders also.

Moderate said:
Barack Obama 2006

I proudly stand behind BHO and will give him and all those allied with him on this my complete support!

BFD said:
Too bad this issue is much more complex than that.

BFD said:
Too bad this issue is much more complex than that.

Are you perhaps confusing complexity with difficult, painful and absolutely unavoidable?

I think it will be raised and probably has to BUT only with a mechanism in place to make it the last time for quite awhile.

DTW, when did the extremist rabid RW gain so much support?

Thank god Lawrence O’Donnell told Americans what the debt ceiling was!

felixw said:
One party understands that we can’t keep borrowing and spending. One doesn’t want to acknowledge reality. But the vast majority of the public understands that this crazy spending spree can’t continue. But the Left will never learn. Did you follow the reactions of the Left in Spain, Greece, etc.? In every instance, the Left continues to spend borrowed money until the very bitter end — until the reach the point that no one will lend them another cent. And what do they do at that point? They riot and complain and gripe. There approach to fiscal issues is so infantile as to beggar belief. The same will happen in the U.S. The Left will never agree to fiscal responsibility. And if the Republicans don’t take charge and stop them, they will borrow and spend until the whole think blows up in a financial fiasco of unprecedented proportions. Welcome to liberal economics, where you just ignore reality until you are bankrupt. Sort of like the old Soviet Union and North Korea and Cuba and Allende’s Chile…and all the other places where far left economics has been allowed to play out until its natural conclusion.

You;’re EXACTLY right. Except that there is a huge gulf between what the establishment GOP says and what it does. Watch as they sell us out.

You know they aren’t serious as a party because when they are asked, the establishment hacks can’t even NAME something large they will cut. Won’t even name it.

We’re going to wish we’d tried to put all Rand Pauls on the ballot in the primaries, or Libertarians, and had them fail in the general 2010 Congressional election. Then we’d have two more years of full-on Obama/ Pelosi/ Reid disaster and then some REAL hope in 2012. The GOP is selling out RIGHT NOW. If we don’t Tea Party THEM right now this whole uprising of the People will go off half-cocked.

How many programs would be required to cut in order to not need to raise the debt ceiling? Some should be cut out entirely or suspended until fiscal responsibility can be regained and maintained through a balanced budget amendment. Over time, the moneys robbed from the Social Security fund should be repayed not with higher taxes but by refraining from funding programs that pay for migration tunnels under highways and thousands of other stupid expenditures.

It is fiscally irresponsible for the President and congress not to raise the debt ceiling and cause the US to go into default. It would be malfeasance for any elected official to deter the raising of the debt ceiling. When the two wars are phased out, when the tax cuts for the rich are phased out, when the american government restores its integrity and follows its primary responsibility to protect the common good of the american people-then corporations won’t get away with robbing, stealing, bilking and defrauding the american citizens and gee there will be money in the economy to pay the bills. Most americans have no idea, what the implications of lifting the debt ceiling or the ramifications if not done responsibly. This is one issue that because of its complexity, should not be decided by an american public polling.

So, you think the government should attack those who create jobs? Tell me, is it more fair and responsible to foist off more indebtedness to our children and grandchildren than to bit the bullet now and try to make amends for the decades of fiscal irresponsibility? Do you think it’s not better to cut spending to the point where we neither assume more debt and downsize government? I think anyone would admit the government wastes money on sensless programs that could be eliminated altogether. The rest could be accrued FOR NOW by cutting all government programs accross the board so that the US does not default on its debt. Once that is done, we could look at each and every expenditure of tax dollars and evaluate its value to the American people who pay taxes. Offhand, I could name a few bureaus and agencies that should be eliminated altogether and I’l bet you could too.