Gee, thanks Speaker Pelosi for your $14.3 Trillion debt ceiling!
By JR Hoeft | Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | PolicyThis is ridiculous. Didn’t we just raise the limit two months ago?
Update: Statement from Rep. Rob Wittman -
“Today, Congress approved the largest one-time increase of our nation’s debt limit in the history of the republic. For the second time in as many months, members of the majority have sought to kick the can down the road and saddle every man, woman, and child in this nation with an additional $6,000 in debt. American’s are already obligated with the responsibility of paying $40,000 each towards our national tab. The sad part of all this is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Instead of passing budgets that continue to dig us into a deeper and deeper hole, we can balance our budget today, cut our spending, and go line by line like the President said he would, and make the same hard decisions that families across America have been making about what we need and what we want. Unfortunately, my colleagues want more than they need and we continue to see our debt skyrocket, while Americans get stuck with the bill.”
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5 Responses to "Gee, thanks Speaker Pelosi for your $14.3 Trillion debt ceiling!"
•Boucher-Yes
•Cantor-No
•Connolly-Yes
•Forbes-No
•Goodlatte-No
•Moran-Yes
•Nye-No
•Perriello-No
•Scott-Yes
•Wittman-No
•Wolf-No
Nye and Perriello trying to bolster financial conervatism cred? Will it matter for either in November?
That number won’t even fit in a desktop calculator. This is one of those moments when you realize that this number so huge that Pelosi and her cohorts are insane and the consequences for just adding more zeros is we are “transforming” into Zimbabwe.
My employer is already looking at ways to pay us in other, more stable currencies when hyper-inflation eventually hits us.
Maybe the US Government should produce Avatar 2, and recoup some of their losses (read: our money).
Congressman Nye has been consistently voting against his party when it comes to fiscal matters.
Maybe Nye has been voting against his party, but he voted for Pelosi and insanity.
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