So, continue the ponzi scheme and default even worse... as if that made any more sense.
If you live beyond your means, you live beyond your means. At some point the reality is going to come, and better earlier than later.
And BTW Obama had pretty good speech on why to vote for the ceiling back in 2006. (I mean why not to vote for the increased ceiling).
When Reagan and both Bush's raised the debt ceiling, we heard nothing from the Right. The issue never made the news. Yes, Republicans were widely derided for spending too much, but the
specific debt ceiling issue was never circulated through talk radio. In fact, people still refuse to talk about the Reagan deficits, or the fact that Reagan was the first president who completely abandoned "pay as you go" (in order to fund crazy money-sucking monsters like Star Wars. America turned into debtor nation under Reagan. The American Middle Class started
widely using debt (Master Cards) to fuel consumption under Reagan).
Reagan Tripled Carter's deficits . . . . (and we didn't hear a peep)
Bush was handed a surplus, but exploded the deficit . . . . (and we didn't see one Tea Party rally)
When Republicans
created and included "end of life counseling" in their 2003 Medicare Bill, we heard nothing about "Death Panels". Rush Limbaugh did not say a word.
(we didn't hear a peep)
When Bob Dole created a stronger version of Public Health Care than Obama proposed....
(we heard nothing)
My point: we have a group of people that are literally getting their issues from a big government political machine, i.e., a network of interests which moves money from big business into think tanks, publishing houses, elections, and mass media (talk radio and television). The machine circulates issues in a
completely Machiavellian fashion, i.e., with no other logic than to protect their power by waging a partisan war.
If the machine doesn't talk about wasteful defense spending, we don't hear a peep from the base. If the machine doesn't talk about the financial insanity of trusting incompetent government to rebuild entire Arab nations, we don't hear a peep from the base. When Republicans raise the debt ceiling over and over, we don't see the Tea Party march on Washington with posters of Bush dressed in Nazi garb. The base isn't even allowed to see or talk about history honestly, i.e., they are not allowed to know or speak about Reagan's love affair with debt and deficits. The base is living in a completely falsified echo chamber. This makes it impossible for them to control their own party, who tricks them into the voting booth with wedge issues, but gives them military adventurism instead, as they don flag pins and scream invectives at Muslims . . . without ever seeing the shell game)
It is perfectly "ok" to oppose raising the debt ceiling, but it is a tragedy when you have such deep loyalty to a political party who thrives on big spending and raising the debt ceiling. Do you understand what the cherry-picked intelligence War on Terrorism has done to the debt ceiling? No -- because the machine doesn't talk about it. This is the problem. We've lost the critically detached right wing voter to the machine.
Our problem is not that the Rightwing voter is anti-government, it's that he is anti-governemnt selectively, and that his critical faculties have been completely co-opted by government (movement conservatism).
We're begging you: Please start by truly reforming your own party
next time you have the presidency --
and then we'll believe you've found religion. Until then, you are forcing us to watch the same bad movie.
The last people on earth that America should listen to about fiscal responsibility is the Republican Party. And I'm not saying the Left is better, because they too have been co-opted by the special interest machine.
FYI: I voted for Perot because I opposed NAFTA and the coming globalized war on the American worker. I am not defending the Democrats, who have been sheepishly running from the
American Worker ever since Clinton sided with Wall Street over Labor.
