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Originally Posted by Riot
Why? Our credit rating has already been downgraded once due to those stupid debt ceiling games. We pay our bills. Saying we won't pay bills we've already incurred is ridiculous. We signed onto debt. We borrowed. We pay it.
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Reminds me of the story a guy goes in to his barber and asks if he can borrow ten bucks. Barber tells him, "no, you already owe me twenty". Guy says if you don't give me the ten I won't give you the twenty and walks out.
You'd be surprised to see how many programs are expendable once a priority list has to be constructed. We have enough to pay our bills we just can't have any new bills coming in and we need to renegotiate many of the agreements 'contracts' we have outstanding. I'll suggest one. The current pension obligations we have for congress and the President should be voided as the pensions of any non-military government employee who worked for less than 30yrs. It's a drop in the bucket but it's a drop and will show good faith to our creditors almost 25% of which are our seniors.