Ted Cruze is blaming Reid for holding the American People hostage

The president will not claim the power to suspend the debt ceiling in advance of the crisis because it doesn’t serve his political interest to do so. That is why both the statutory interpretation argument and the 14th Amendment argument, which do not depend on a crisis being in existence, are dead on arrival. He does better by keeping mum about his emergency powers while pleading helplessness, so as to impart to Congress horrific visions of the AARP’s troops charging up Capitol Hill, swinging their canes at House Republicans who stray in their path. If President Obama claimed that power now, Republicans could both press ahead with the showdown secure in the knowledge that a financial crisis will not take place, and accuse the president of asserting dictatorial powers. But if the debt ceiling is not lifted, he would have no choice but to act—with unpredictable consequences for the future of our constitutional system.

I don't know what the consequences will be in the event the president lifts the debt ceiling on his own without authorization from congress.

Anything is possible in a crisis, but nobody really knows what the results will look like.

You don't understand good government fiscal management.

Basic services such as good education, a functioning infrastructure, safe and available public transportation, many other public services (police and fire departments), and health services, are necessary for any country to compete in the world marketplace.

Sometimes it's necessary to spend more than what's taken in as tax revenues.
WWII is a good example of that. More recently, Obama's spending on bailouts of financial institutions were necessary to keep our's and the world's economy working.

Where did you learn economics?

7.9 million jobs lost - many forever


By Chris Isidore, senior writerJuly 2, 2010: 11:46 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The recession killed off 7.9 million jobs. It's increasingly likely that many will never come back.

The government jobs report issued Friday shows that businesses have slowed their pace of hiring to a relative trickle.
"The job losses during the Great Recession were so off the chart, that even though we've gained about 600,000 private sector jobs back, we've got nearly 8 million jobs to go," said Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of Economic Cycle Research Institute.

That's one man's opinion and hasn't been challenged in court. There are opinions the opposite way as well.

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until the GOP's failure to act responsibly by passing a clean continuing resolution unnecessarily forces the United States to default on it's financial obligations.

On the other hand, a longer CR locks in a bad budget, helping to turn post-sequester spending levels into a new normal. According to the Congressional Budget Office, maintaining the sequester’s spending cuts would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs next year, and reduce gross domestic product. “We are very much defining ‘normal’ downwards,” said Bernstein. “In many ways, the solution we’re all hoping for is one that locks in its own version of dysfunction.”

Ultimately, the millions of Americans waiting for a budget that addresses long-term unemployment and wage stagnation, that provides adequate funding for public services and that strengthens the economy as a whole will be hurt by a government shutdown and any other delays in the passage of a long-term spending bill. But instead of governing, the GOP will turn the lights off—and even that won’t stop the Affordable Care Act rollout.

NO crime; just ignorance from you that makes no sense. Family and friends can have disagreements; they are in no way comparable to congress.

Your comparisons belong in the area of non-sequitur.

Republican Extremism and the Lessons of History
This crisis is about nothing other than the Republican Party – its radicalization, its stunning lack of leadership and its disregard for the Constitution.

Powerless to control his caucus, John Boehner has proved to be one of the weakest congressional leaders in American history.
J. Scott Applewhite
By SEAN WILENTZ
October 10, 2013 11:10 AM ET
This latest episode in the endless Republican reality show is not chiefly about the incompetence and incessant squabbling of ideologues and petty politicians, although it's that, too. Nor is it the outcome of the intense partisan polarization that has thrown Washington into gridlock, as if the problem is abstract partisanship itself, with Democrats and Republicans equally at fault. Least of all is it about rescuing the economy from the Democrats' profligate deficit spending, as Republicans claim – not with the deficit shrinking to its lowest level since the financial disaster of 2008 and with the outlook improving. This crisis is about nothing other than the Republican Party – its radicalization, its stunning lack of leadership and its disregard for the Constitution.

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