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View Poll Results: In the vote to raise the debt limit of the United States, I would | |||
Vote Yes - raise the debt limit | 12 | 37.50% | |
Vote No - the debt is too high already | 15 | 46.88% | |
Vote Present - hey, this vote is too hard | 5 | 15.63% | |
Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll |
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Vote on Debt Limit increase?
What would you do as a member of Congress?
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Huge suprise but I'd vote as Obama did when he was in the Senate: NO
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“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson |
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There is no backbone. We will collapse.
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I hate to see it raised but the ramifications of not doing so outweigh increased debt.
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"Always be yourself...unless you suck!" |
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Yes, IF we start to pay it down aggressively now. If not, the outcome is exactly the same and all the more permanent once we are cut off from borrowing instead of deciding to reduce the debt on our own.
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We have to face the music someday. Better to do it while the fat lady is still singing in english.
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No, we can't cut off our heads to spite our nose...we must raise the ceiling and enact meaningful debt reduction at the same time.
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I gotta go with this one!
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You have to vote yes. There isn't any option that will not irrepairably harm this country regarding our credit rating and interest rates, and our standing in the world financial community if "no" votes dominate. To think that there is a choice, is beyond absurd. This vote is not the place for anyone to "take a stand". That's stupid.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts Last edited by Riot : 04-19-2011 at 04:25 PM. |
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Maybe they should start by cutting all those flights on Air Force One and wasted congressional trips abroad.....
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So that's "actually, you do".
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[quote=dellinger63;770205]You don't fix that by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. Do you?
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So if you cut spending and stop borrowing you have a winner - so actually you don't.
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I know if the government was an average family they'd take out credit cards on all the children and babies and let them worry about it while ma and dad partied with the neighbors. Our number one problem is the debt and now we NEED to increase it?
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Not raising the debt ceiling - defaulting on our obligations - does nothing to change the amount of our debt - it only makes it far more expensive and harder to get in the future. It will hugely increase the cost of the debt we already owe. Yeah, that's smart?
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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And what what type of talk has negatively influenced that recent S & P announcement? Oh, yeah - politicos yammering on about doing something completely idiotic, not raising the debt ceiling.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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Give me a break. We may need to put in a stipulation regarding unforeseen national defense or disasters but we don't need to raise the limit for more useless cash for clunker like programs. We need to trim down as a nation both in weight and debt. We need to accept the private sector and what it can do. No Federal worker should be mowing grass, cleaning toilets or anything else than can be contracted out at a lower price with no pension obligations. Look out for the taxpayer above the government worker. Start there and the rest will fall in place.
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Yes, we need to markedly trim our expenses (getting rid of two unfunded wars, and finding a way to fund the unfunded huge Medicare giveaway is a start, and letting the Bush tax cuts expire will help immensely), and increase our income (taxes) to help pay for both our expenses and our debt. That has nothing to do with the necessity to immediately raise the debt ceiling.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts Last edited by Riot : 04-19-2011 at 07:19 PM. |
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Here is a good Ezra Klein (Wash Post) article excerpt - from January - on voting no to raising the debt ceiling, and links to Tim Geithner's letter.
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