Oh shit that can't happen. That would make the lower middle class go broke. They would riot about how unfair their treatment has become!
You're wrong. Where is it mandated by law that we have to keep all parks open so that we can pay rangers to work there next week?
2% would be well below the typical rate for the past 50+ years. Seems likely to happen to me. Liberals will be cursing Obama for generations after the first defaults we make will be to the Social Security trust fund. It's not a question of "if" but "when."
Oh I agree 100%. This maybe looked back as one of the biggest liberal blunders in the history of Democracy. It will be a Democratic Cluster Fuck! They won't know who to trust. Sadly, most will blindly still vote democratic and follow the herd
There is probably a law establishing the National Park Service and charging it with maintaining the parks for the common good. Then there is also a law establishing the budget for the NPS (or its parent agency, perhaps). Then there is the CR signed last night that continues that funding. barfo
Through January 15. The debt ceiling increase is through Feb 7. If they don't increase the debt ceiling, they're going to have to change what spending they do authorize. By design. When I "win," we all do.
Yep, through Jan 15. Then the curtain rises and the drama begins anew. When you "win", hell freezes over. Or maybe it's the other way around. barfo
When I win, Social Security will be sound. Medicare, too. That's why you win, too. If you have children, they'll be thanking us winners for not saddling them with taxes required to pay the interest on the debt due to the debt ceiling increases.
Um, you do know if it happens, it's President Obama's decision, right? There's always enough money to cover the interest on the debt.
Yep. This was a friendly fire casualty. The real villains are the Republicans that looked at Ted Cruz and Mike Lee as the enemy rather than President Obama, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi.
I love the canard of "costing" the economy $24B. We're borrowing every cent of that $24B, so all it took for that $24B is $30B-$40B in principal and interest.
There are some that think that being hired by the government means we have a lifetime obligation to them. I have a crazy idea that people can be hired/fired based on the ability to pay them or whether or not we need them. Bottom line, we actually employed Park Rangers during the shutdown to occupy parks where none had been posted before. Why? To shut down the parks. We turned non-essential employees into essential ones just to inflict pain on the American people. You stay classy, Chocolate Nixon.
Bingo. We should take average life expectancy, and adjust the retirement age to a year or two below it.
umm! You might be the only one that agreed with my position but the real question is Why? I don't think these guys understand what is happening to them and I can't understand why not? If Obama threatens to manage the government into default as prohibited in the 14th amendment, it seems to me that is more than ample reason for impeachment. Violating this principle as he did indeed threaten, should not be tolerated, the threat it's self is a high crime. Now why the hell is that difficult to understand?
It might be that McConnell and Boehner understand their political situation better than you do? barfo
