Fantastique wrote:
Weena wrote:
Compromise is letting the debt ceiling go up.
...Wait, you were serious?
There is NO other choice. Compromise is tax hikes on the rich + spending cuts on everything including entitlements. PERIOD. Taking a bite out of the things that the parties don't want to do is compromise, NOT doing what is universally accepted as being in the nation's interest. Think otherwise and find yourself among the foolish.
Letting the gov't default is not good, it makes us look bad in the world's eye and damages the economy further. Why would you want that? If you have no national pride and think it's okay to go through an embarrassing default, gtfo - don't worry, you won't be missed. It's not like we need more dumbasses in this country anyway.
Your premise that the government wouldn't be able to pay it's debts without an increase in the debt ceiling was predictably incorrect in the past few weeks and has recently become provably false since the treasury stated it plans to service the debt before anything else should a deal not occur.
To say it in a manner equal to the way you put it: to think the US Treasury would even consider default is insane. The two simple facts that there is money to service the debt (it's just promised to other avenues), and that a default would be crushing, are enough to come to the conclusion that the treasury wouldn't let it occur. Think otherwise and find yourself among the foolish.
