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I hope you are trying to be intellectually dishonest and don't believe what you just said.Mithros said:That's like saying that you're not paying the mortgage until your spouse agrees to stop buying Starbucks.
A mortgage is a set rate. If my mortgage company said they would shutdown my household if I didn't agree to a larger monthly payment than contracted for, I think I would have some legal action pending against them.
How does this apply?Mithros said:The Government doesn't sit down and say.. Oh, I need a new pen. I think I'll buy some at Staples. Oh shoot, I can't, my credit card was denied.
This is the type of government stupidity we need to stop.Mithros said:Instead the government signs a contract with a supplier saying that they'll take x pens a month for y months at so much. Halfway through, the government can't pull out and say.. never mind.. That's too much. They have a legal obligation to meet their obligations. (Hence the name).
I really hope you don't disagree...
Perhaps we shouldn't have any mandatory spending, except for what the constitution requires the government to do...Mithros said:The discretionary part of government spending is done when a new budget is passed. If you want to say that we need to cut spending, then do it then. Trying to cut government spending with the debt limit is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline... and saying.. well it 'looked' like water.