{"id":3718,"date":"2013-10-14T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2013-10-14T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:37:54","slug":"why-are-we-dickering-and-bickering-over-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3718","title":{"rendered":"Why are we dickering and bickering over debt ceiling?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m still scratching my head.<\/p>\n

President Obama makes sense when he says that the White House and Congress shouldn’t be negotiating over whether to increase the nation’s debt limit.<\/p>\n

Still, here we are. Three days until our borrowing limit hits its maximum. We’re on the verge of defaulting on our national debt obligations. The implications of defaulting for the first time in our nation’s history are cataclysmic, if you believe the hundreds of non-partisan economists around the world.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/14\/politics\/shutdown-showdown\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1<\/p>\n

Do those cranky members of Congress fail to grasp how angry they’re going to make millions of Americans — including yours truly — if they allow our retirement accounts to get flushed down the toilet?<\/p>\n

Do they not read the papers — and other “mainstream media” outlets, for that matter — that tell them their standing among the public is at an all-time low? An NBC-Wall Street Journal poll puts Congress’s standing at 5 percent. <\/p>\n

Ladies and gentlemen of Congress, listen up: You work for us. We are your bosses. We can fire you <\/strong>whenever the opportunity presents itself. That opportunity is coming up in about, oh, a year from now when we the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate is up for election.<\/p>\n

Why, indeed, are you negotiating over this matter?<\/p>\n\n

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I’m still scratching my head. President Obama makes sense when he says that the White House and Congress shouldn’t be negotiating over whether to increase the nation’s debt limit. Still, here we are. Three days until our borrowing limit hits its maximum. We’re on the verge of defaulting on our national debt obligations. The implications … Continue reading Why are we dickering and bickering over debt ceiling?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1112,1303,3708,4531,5246],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congress","tag-debt-limit","tag-president-obama","tag-tea-party","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}