Another rant, the Debt Ceiling. Forgive me.
It's the $ amount the government is legally allowed to borrow to keep going, now raised to 16.4 trillion.
Short term, to avoid voluntary destruction of our country, ANY reasonable lawmaker would apprise the situation and come to a compromise in time to avoid financial turbulence, then a market meltdown and the US being immediately downgraded credit-wise, which results in long-term harm to us due to paying more for everything; also just the interest rate raise on the debt (is) will be a 100 billion tax increase for all of us. We can't do that it'll break us but here we go.
Already we're right now living on ridiculous accounting wizardry, it's laughable.
In addition, because of long term inability to come to terms with our debt and budget we face an inevitable further credit downgrade which digs the hole deeper. Soon we must face austerity measures currently seen in Greece and Spain.
I feel for our kids, and won't blame them for cursing us when it's time to pay the piper. A responsible government would not have led us to this point.
If you are a citizen of the US, you owe over $52,000 just for this debt.
Instead of going on and on I'll shut up now, again thank you for your time.
Last edited by BondJmsBond; 01-13-2013 at 10:20 PM.
No, it's your thread. You don't have to apologize for highjacking it back from highjackers.
I'm still burnt out from the election. Haven't been reading the news at all recently... it's more peaceful that way I think.
Signs will arrive tonight
Guiding light decrease my pain
That I created on my own
Blind be my eyes tonight
Hide the sight that sees in vain
Before and after is all done
And everything is in time gone
I've grown to like the hijacking around here
Wise words. I'll try to do more of that in future. Meanwhile..
Just watched the Presidents' speech, looks like it's all set up for another round of rep vs dem down to the wire grandstanding drama, with all the harm that will do to us. Idiots all.
Anyway, back to Canada.
We can't nuke Canada we might hit Neil Peart.
And as we know, Canada is playing us for fools with all their forward thinking and advanced society stuff, it's all just masking their true purpose, the invasion and conquering of the US.
Almost all Canadians are within 100 miles of the border, they cover it up by saying they 'live' there.
Bunch of hooey, it's pre-positioning for the invasion.
we'll all be saying ey and watching hockey soon.
Before we lob any nukes at Canada, we would send a couple of extraction teams to get any of the cool people out of there,
and a surgical strike team to remove any bicycle tires thus disabling their military.
Yes, but yours comes down here to work and live,
at least ours you can just turn the TV to another channel...just like we do.![]()
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