i thought cutting was the goal?

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Originally Posted by joeydb

OK, that sounds reasonable. And nobody actually WANTS a default, but then the president and the Democrats do need to allow serious cuts in spending.

Excuse me? You mean the Republicans have to allow serious cuts in spending. The President has already offered multiple spending cuts, the Republicans have refused them.

Cantor and the Tea Party idiots are the ones preventing anything from being voted upon. Boehner doesn't have the votes in his caucus to pass anything, even with the Dems on his side, because he's held hostage by Cantor and the Tea Party types.

A clean debt ceiling raise needs to be passed with the one-sentence bill it always has been in the past, as it was passed 7 times by these guys in the Bush administration, and before that.

If you can cut the spending enough to actually start paying the (net) debt back, then raising the debt limit in the interim by a small amount seems like a good idea.

We are paying the net debt back. We don't need to cut future spending to continue do so. Future spending is a separate thing unassociated with the debt ceiling. It certainly needs to be reined in.

The debt ceiling limit is a minor housekeeping accounting procedure that allows cash flow to pay our bills. It is not a reference "ceiling" for future spending when budgets are prepared.