YES! Our credit rating should never be used as a weapon.
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YES! It serves no purpose & only creates political drama.
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We must find a way to reduce the many, many barriers that prevent us from solving our crises. Artificial ceilings, deadlines, due dates, etc., need to be flexible enough so they don't stop us from solving serious problems. A "debt ceiling" is merely a guideline, and such guidelines must bend to meet current circumstances and conditions.
So it's either yes or yes? Not much of a choice. However, I think this deserves some consideration and not another knee-jerk reaction. We can do away with it but god forbid we should go to war I would hate for the President to have unlimited or unrestrictive use of money without any Congressional oversight. At the same time in cases of natural disasters we also need to be able to react quickly to alleviate pain and suffering. Maybe a little bit more thinking about this is needed.
We need to limit our debt, the yes & yes "choice" is not acceptable.
We need to end spending for the endless illegal wars, the drug war, foreign aid with weapons, bombs, fighter jets etc etc, end aid to our enemies, end aid to Israel, cut corporate welfare, corporations are not "people", eliminate tax breaks for corporations who move our jobs off shore, end all free trade agreements, get corporations out of our government, out of our voting system and $ is not "speech" raise taxes on the rich and large corporations that are not paying their fair share if anything, remove the cap on Social Security taxes and raise tariffs.
There is a lot of fat that needs to be cut from the budget not social programs but war mongering, violating our rights with private for profit prisons, and supporting terrorists and dictators.
Impeach the "supreme" court, war criminals Bush/Cheney & Obama.Off with their heads!
debt ceiling:
a ceiling that continues to rise in proportion to the public debt required to produce greater private profits from more costly wars waged
debt ceiling increase:
something regularly required for the the most militarized nation to become even more militarized
raising the people's debt to pay for the corporate-state's aggressor wars, to continue its aggression against people here at home, while it wages its endless war of terror over there
non-negotiable:
what corporatists and their corporate media say raising the people's debt ceiling is... without ever explaining why what they claim is "non-negotiable" requires a legislative vote before government does it to the people
what corporate persons call their offers that people can't refuse
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What happened to NO ? We must Get rid of greedy bribing lobbyists - get rid of private war contractors aka profiteers - end Citizens United- make congress obey laws they make- No more voting their own raises . Raise min wage - bring back Glass Steagal - End NAFTA CAFTA Korean Trade. Add a transaction tax on Wall St Then watch AMerica thrive ! . Greenspan pushed hard for UN regulated FREE markets & Free trade . That brought on worst crash in 84 yrs Alan Greenspan & Robt Rubin goofed big time ! Now Greenspan writes a new book making excuses for his failures ! Grayson / Warren 2016 USA needs a kick A $$ President !