If you have a moment, read what Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says about the current debt and how NOT to balance it on the backs of those of us who happen to be ill, elderly, children, poor, unemployed, or simply less fortunate than ourselves. If you have “friends” who hate Obama, Democrats, progressives, or Liberals, send it to them, too. They’re part of the problem, not the solution.
They voted overwhelmingly in the 2010 Congressional elections to put radical conservative Tea Party dolts and "innocents" into office. As Sen. Sanders says, "elections have consequences."
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Today, they control the House of Representative, and they do not know, as Sen. Sanders says, “what they are talking about.” THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT—yes, it is We, The People who ARE The Government, g.d. it—means something. Our T-Bills, Treasury Bills, are the Gold Standard for the World Economy. If we play games with it, with Republican deadlines, with Tea Party Ignorance, we threaten the economies of every nation in the world that BUYS our T-Bills and that makes it possible for us to be the Great Nation that we are.
We should not tamper with “THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.” It means something that Tea Party Republicans do not understand: that we pay our debts. Hostile bastards! Are they deadbeats? Don't they pay theirs?
That we grow out of our budget deficits and debt by building America through jobs and investments in America. That it will take time for us to do so because it took eight years for us to dig ourselves into this g.d. hole. That it took two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, one unfunded prescription-drug plan, and several tax breaks to the wealthiest 2% of Americans and multi-national corporations and eight (count 'em, 8) G.W. Bush years of NOT paying for any of these bills--after Bush and Congress squandered the tremendous surplus that Pres. Clinton's administration left us--for us to screw up so badly.
Obama cannot fix it in one day or even after one term in office. He'd like to try with a $4-Trillion deficit-and-debt reduction package, "The Grand Bargain," that, apparently, he and Rep. Boehner fashioned on the golf links, but Idiot "Novice" Eric Cantor--egoist, and egotist that he is--and his Republican "Tea Party" Fops and Fools will not give Obama the "Grand Bargain" package because they do not want to give him the credit for fixing anything. Anything!. So, they delay, bitch, balk, and spout their Talking Points lies. [Have you heard of ALEC? That's next.] They say that he does not have a plan or that it is not "in writing." Or whatever. That's B.S., and the big networks play it as if Republicans and Tea Party lunatics are NOT playing games with the credit agencies.
Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him? Where is Edward R. Murrow?
China holds trillions of our debt. We have not heard a peep out of China. Its financial gurus understand our politics better than masses of Americans do. It is silent. It is far smarter and far more sensible than the Tea Party is! It is watching. It has invested in the USA. Our Treasury Bills are its long-term investment in THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. It means something to the Chinese government.
Moody’s and Standard & Poor's has threatened to downgrade our credit rating if we even approach default or think that paying only the interest on the debt will be sufficient, as Rep. Michele Bachmann tells her lemmings: that we'd not default if we paid the interest. That's bullshit. That's not good enough for the credit agencies. They ought to and do examine the Big Picture, not just ask: Are you paying the interest on your debt. To quote K.O., "That woman is an idiot."
Yet, Rep. Bachmann has her “people” in thrall, and they believe her and not Moody’s and Standard & Poor's. I’m sick of it. They're damned fools, and they are willing to bring down the USA to score a RACIST--yes, they are racist bastards, too--political point: That Obama cannot govern because "we" won't let him govern because we HATE everything that he stands for. When are we going to begin to soar past Sen. Sanders Voice of Reason and exemplary rhetoric and call this B.S. for what it is?
Say it, you bastards: You hate Obama because he's black and you cannot believe that we elected him into office and you hope to Christ! that he and his Administration and the United States fails miserably on His Watch because that will prove that your RACISM meant something: that it has been rooted from Day One in the truth. A black or a half-black man cannot govern and should not govern The United States of America. Say it!
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