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The Dems are gonna blame the Rep. party for not automatically allowing the debt ceiling to be raised. The Dems are using the fear-mongering technique to scare the people into believing that Social Security and our Armed Forces would not get a check unless the debt ceiling is raised. Which is complete and total BS. It isn't up to Congress as to who gets paid what and when it is up to the Treasury. I say if one person expecting a check doesn't get it to he// with Congress, you just proved over and over you can't handle our money.
ON MY PLAN, the first unfunded group shall be Congress. Nobody in Congress shall receive a check, second all former members of Congress shall be without their check, third none of the white collar health care benefits shall be funded for sitting Congress or the former, you see where I am going.. In fact it has been suggested that Congress should be paid from the same fund as Social Security, that would be a motivation to fix SS forever.. In other words, the folks that paid their money into the system would get their check right off the top including all military personnel. Any shortage would be felt by those that created the FN problem. If any member of Congress has a problem with that I say we could afford them the same benefits package I get when I retire, (ZERO for those that want to crunch a number) or better yet I have a nice roll of tripple braid and a book on knots. If we hung them from the rafters in the mall I suspect they would be more motivated toward solving the problems and do what is right for America by using the roadmap they have before them. History, roadmap, common-sense, maybe a little logic.
Neither side has a clue as to what another downgrade of America's credit will mean. They know the game of in-fighting and posturing real well.
Thankfully, they kicked the can down the road again by reinstating the Bush Tax Cuts. Without the Tax Cuts, everyone from the EIC recipient to the multi-millionaire would have had to pay more in taxes. A fact that seemed lost in the rhetoric. If I could send a Your Welcome letter to President Obama I would. You and Congress are welcome for my allowing you to use me and my future income as a pawn in your game of chess, so you could hang a disproportionately higher tax rate on someone making more than $200,000. You really did me a favor there. Spend spend,spend..