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| 2013-09-20 |
| h/t Instapundit RAISING THE DEBT LIMIT DOESN'T INCREASE OUR DEBT. So I saw this Drudge headline and figured he must have taken Professor Ditherton Wiggleroom out of context, because there's just no way Wiggleroom thinks we're that stupid, or is that stupid himself. But out of fairness to Drudge, I clicked on the link to see what the Professor had actually said, and here are his actual words: "Now, this debt ceiling -- I just want to remind people in case you haven't been keeping up -- raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy. All it does is it says you got to pay the bills that you've already racked up, Congress. It's a basic function of making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved." Obama went on to suggest that "the average person" mistakenly thinks that raising the debt ceiling means the U.S. is racking up more debt: "It's always a tough vote because the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean that we're running up our debt, so people don't like to vote on it, and, typically, there's some gamesmanship in terms of making the President's party shoulder the burden of raising the -- taking the vote." I think he was stoned, and I'm not kidding. Either Wiggleroom was stoned when he said those words, or stoned when he or his speechwriter wrote those words, because that is not how a non-stoned person speaks or thinks. As a young man I spent four years in the former Pot Capital of the World™, Humboldt County, CA -- and I know these things. There's another possibility: the choom gang years permanently changed Barry's brain |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 AFAIC none of the GOP-DEMS in Washington is truly serious about reducing the debt, just as they are about NOT sealing the borders or preventing illegals from collecting public assistance, etc. widout having to change their status or learn anything about America. IMO the only real plan is to pass off the bulk of the US' massive debt to our future OWG NAU + related after 2015, where US Politicos will get to claim the US no longer has any national = sovereign debt or large debt, but weirdly-n-mysteriously is still expected to carry the majority or bulk of the post-2015 OWG NAU, ETC. contributions = budget support. IOW, AMERIKA STILL OWES, BUT IT NOW OWES AT THE "GLOBAL" LEVEL OR RELATED, i.e. Bloc = Regional, Trans-regional, Continental, etc. OUR FUTURE "MINOR/LOW-LEVEL" NATIONAL GOVT. HAS NONE OR LITTLE DEBT; OUR EXTRA-NATIONALIST, "BORDERLESS", "GLOBAL", ETC. GOVT(S) HAS OUR MISSING DEBT. Aren't we Amerikans glad that Mexico + Canada will pay for our debt at the Globalist level(s) -OH WAIT, THEY DON'T WANT TO, THEY PREFER POST-2015 OWG AMERIKA PAYS THEIRS! Oh my. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-09-20 21:18 |
| #2 He's right, and wrong at the same time, the PHRASE, doesn't mean shit, it's the FACT we're raising the debt in the first place, NOT what it's called. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-09-20 18:30 |
| #1 This is your brain on drugs. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-20 15:43 |