{"id":54814,"date":"2023-05-04T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54814"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:12:50","slug":"debt-ceiling-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54814","title":{"rendered":"Word of warning: Don&#8217;t default, GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The men and women serving in Congress as Republicans seem to have lost their collective minds.<\/p>\n<p>They are threatening to allow the United States &#8212; for the first time in its history &#8212; to default on its debt obligations. They want to negotiate big spending cuts to, um, reduce the national debt before allowing the debt ceiling to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>If Congress and the president fail to reach an agreement, well, catastrophe looms. President Biden says he won&#8217;t negotiate over the debt ceiling, because it&#8217;s an action the government has taken since the founding of the republic.<\/p>\n<p>If we default on our debts, all hell is going to bust loose. <em>All hell, I&#8217;m telling ya!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I do not want to see my retirement portfolio flushed away. Yet that is what well could happen if we default on our debts.<\/p>\n<p>I hasten to add that when Republicans served as president, the GOP was OK with raising the ceiling. No problem, man. They locked arms with their Democratic colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to point out that the latest GOP pol to occupy the White House ran the debt up at a greater pace than any other administration in history. Where was the Republican outrage over that? I know the answer: There was none!<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans need to quit playing games and threatening to bring calamity to hundreds of millions of Americans&#8217; financial well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Time is running out. Raise the damn debt ceiling!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men and women serving in Congress as Republicans seem to have lost their collective minds. They are threatening to allow the United States &#8212; for the first time in its history &#8212; to default on its debt obligations. They want to negotiate big spending cuts to, um, reduce the national debt before allowing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Word of warning: Don&#8217;t default, GOP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7910],"tags":[1112,1301,1941,2505],"class_list":["post-54814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","tag-congress","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-gop","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54814","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=54814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54815,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54814\/revisions\/54815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}