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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%
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Old 05-16-2011, 01:19 PM
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Well it SHOULD, should it not? Why are we spending more than we take in, ever, let alone for many, many years?
That has nothing to do with our debt ceiling, though. That's budgeting. And budget trouble started back in 2000, Joey. Yes, not from scratch, but we did some very major things to screw ourselves during the 2000's. There is no denying that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_ceiling#Debt_ceiling

Look: if you are paying compounding interest rates of X on your car, house and credit cards, saying you no longer can afford to pay X, you want to pay X - 3, doesn't make those interest rates drop or go away.

You can say you refuse to pay that accumulating, compounding interest any more, but saying that doesn't make it go away, and defaulting on it is a financial disaster. There is also the component of the debt ceiling that goes to our cash flow.
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