"Ostrich" Congress puts head in the sand and votes for debt increase

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

That's a fairytail. We always pay the interest on our debt and like a good credit card customer keep those balances at the limit even if the limit keeps going up.

Nope. No fairytail. You present a T-bill for cash, and it's cashed, with interest. You don't only get paid interest.

The last year we paid down our debt was right before Bush W. put us in the crapper. And I think his first year did, too.