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House approves bill to end shutdown

Where is former House Republican Henry Hyde from Illinois when you need him..
Credits to O'Donnell/MSNBC with old CT Republican Shays, who lost primary to loon WWE for Senate last time..
we could never have defaulted....

now that we haven't done it
 
Where is former House Republican Henry Hyde from Illinois when you need them..
O'Donnell with old CT Republican Shays, who lost primary to loon WWE

now that we haven't done it

Hyde ...hes dead.

interest on the debt is mandatory spending it must be paid by law, since the revenue coming into the federal government is 10x the debt payment ,its impossible to default.
 
Where is former House Republican Henry Hyde from Illinois when you need him..
Credits to O'Donnell/MSNBC with old CT Republican Shays, who lost primary to loon WWE for Senate last time..

now that we haven't done it


I think the american people were played... again.

the math doesn't add up to a default... it never did.
well, unless the administration were to purposefully default... but i don't think they would do that.
 
80+ Republicans who should be facing a Peimary challenger next year in the House. Almost 30 in the Senate who should have the same issue the next time they're up for re-election. It's just that simple.
 
Hyde ...hes dead.
So is the GOP I joined in 1972..
interest on the debt is mandatory spending it must be paid by law, since the revenue coming into the federal government is 10x the debt payment ,its impossible to default.
Interest is the only thing we had to pay forever, right ernst?
 
O'Reilly vs. Hannity on tape on O'Donnell next..Give it to Bill, haven't seen it..
 
Hyde ...hes dead.

interest on the debt is mandatory spending it must be paid by law, since the revenue coming into the federal government is 10x the debt payment ,its impossible to default.

Kindly produce a reference from a credible economist that agrees with this position, as it is generally regarded as a position held by the ill-informed. You believing it to be true does not make it true. If you can't produce such a reference then, if you are smart, you too will no longer believe it to be true.
 
So is the GOP I joined in 1972..Interest is the only thing we had to pay forever, right ernst?


there is mandatory spending 63%........and discretionary spending 37% of the budget..

mandatory is entitlement spending /interest on the debt.

so since by law we have to pay debt interest and our government brings in about 250 billion a month its not possible to default, unless the WH, would seek to default on purpose.

since the u.s. government does not pay down its debt, it is rising, from 5 trillion when bush II came in and ended with him at 10.5 trillion, .......then obama picked up and now at almost 17 trillion.
 
Until Jan. 15th..

I think the Republicans are smarter than that..... they don't want to have this happen again, even closer to the election. They played out the hand and lost. The Obama care debate is now substantially behind us.
 
How would World markets have reacted on Friday without a deal??
We actually scared the sh!t out of them..
I think the american people were played... again.
As we'll be played again in Jan..
the math doesn't add up to a default... it never did.
Which bills are you not paying??
well, unless the administration were to purposefully default... but i don't think they would do that.
Do you really think Obama wouldn't have used Constitutional Authority, prompting articles, which is still to on the House's agenda ?
 
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Kindly produce a reference from a credible economist that agrees with this position, as it is generally regarded as a position held by the ill-informed.

it does not take a scholar......the u.s. took in 2.7 trillion in revenue for 2013, on average thats over 200 billion a month, our debt payment is about 25 billion a month, ...how can we default since according to law, interest on the debt must be paid.
 
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With only 30 billion left on hand in the treasurary, I have high doubts we could have prevented a default

again....... the u.s government brings in about 10x more.......what our debt payment is ,how could we have defaulted.


people were scaring people with this nonsense of defaulting.
 
I think the Republicans are smarter than that..... they don't want to have this happen again, even closer to the election. They played out the hand and lost. The Obama care debate is now substantially behind us.

I think this has settled the Obamacare debate as much as Roe Vs. Wade settled abortion. 26 states have refused Federal funding for the program, which in a perverse sort of way may not be that bad: perhaps if the debate continues to thrive we can actually get universal health care out of the deal.

Hey, I don't have to be a miserable cynic all the time.
 
again....... the u.s government brings in about 10x more.......what our debt payment is ,how could we have defaulted.


people were scaring people with this nonsense of defaulting.

with interest payments of 420 billion and an income or revenue of 2.7 trillion or there about, I feel the same way. But I am happy it is over with.
 
Kindly produce a reference from a credible economist that agrees with this position, as it is generally regarded as a position held by the ill-informed. You believing it to be true does not make it true. If you can't produce such a reference then, if you are smart, you too will no longer believe it to be true.

excuse me..you dont seem to understand.........are you incapable of finding how much revenue the u.s. government took in for 2013..its 2.7 trillion.......divide by 12..gives you an average.

our debt payment is about 25 billion a month, since revenue average a month is about 10x higher than the payment..... how do you default?......the debt must be paid by law, and since revenue is still flowing into Washington, president must pay....by executing the law

is that to hard?
 
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How would World markets have reacted on Friday without a deal??
We actually scared the sh!t out of them..As we'll be played again in Jan..Which bills are you not paying??
Do you really think Obama wouldn't have used Constitutional Authority, prompting articles, which is still to on the House's agenda ?

yeah, the markets were freaked... by news of an impending default.

the administration has been screaming default since day 1... and people bought it and were scared by the idea of defaulting.
the thing is, we weren't at risk for defaulting unless we defaulted on purpose.
the treasury brings in 10 times the money needed to service our debts....that is just fact... our bills were gonna get paid no matter what happened to the debt ceiling or if the government shutdown continued or not.

Moodys, the rating agency came right out and said it... we were simply not at risk of defaulting on our debts, period.


we'll be revisiting this whole cluster**** again in Jan, sure.. Feb 7th is the next DOOMSDAY!! ( the day we will be lied to about, again.)
 
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