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Originally Posted by Riot

You've missed my point. Yes, both parties do the political posturing. But how many have said, in the past, "Not raising it won't cause a problem?" That's my point - the ignorance. When you have to have the Secretary of the Treasury sit down with freshmen congressmembers and explain what the debt ceiling is, and yes, if you don't address it, there really are consequences.

I don't want ignorance in there newly fresh every two years. I don't want members that don't know parlimentary procedure, don't know how committees work, don't know how to get legislation through the House or Senate. A little new blood is good, but novices governing gives you things like Sarah Palin leaving little in-the-black Wasilla 23 million in debt.

Would that be the same Secretary of the Treasury that doesn't know how to fill out his own tax returns? Tim "Tax Cheat" Geithner? I wouldn't be taking any advice from him.