Congress has always acted when called upon to raise the debt limit...
And they have always put a limit back upon themselves. They are tired of having to go through the motions of approving a new increase in view of the public and are tired of getting hammered by Americans for MASSIVE record-setting deficit-spending and addition of new debt...yeah, I get it. They just did away with all that new frustration and inconvenience.
1. that is a lie.
2. the debt ceiling pays for things already voted upon by congress.
3. it was purely a ministerial matter until the rightwingnut teatards got hold of it to use it as extortion.
4. Reagan raised taxes 8 times and the debt ceiling, I believe, 13.
now try getting your facts straight.
why does an extremist group of wingers think they can hold up everyone else in congress and hold this country hostage?
grow up.
Princess Jillian
Sit down, I have some bad news for you:
The DEMOPUBLICANS love to BUY votes using US treasury funds
In our Constitutional Republic they can only spend those monies which are specifically authorized
99.9 % - possibly more - of the items in the federal budget are UNconstitutional .
Capisce?
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It is not unconstitutional unless and until the court says it is unconstitutional. And you certainly aren't in any position to make those assessments.
Capisce?
Princess Jill
You are wrong.......again.
WE THE PEOPLE are the natural guardians of the Constitution.
It was NOT adopted to protect the bureaucrats ...federal judges are nothing more than bureaucrats in black robes ...each with a different fascistic agenda.
In 1942 former Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds declared :
" A nation which elect Roosevelt 4 times deserve no protection"
And it appears that is still their position now. The Numeorus UNconstitutional laws enacted by Congress demanded that Americans marched onto DC and kick ass. SCOTUS has taken judicial notice of the fact that AMericans have been narcotized and rendered disarmed by welfare state goodies.
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Who cares what one winger justice said? His opinion means as much as yours --which is to say not at all.