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Blaming one party vs the other in this case seems shortsighted. Either party could have completely removed the debt ceiling. Let's face it, there isn't one alre

Blaming one party vs the other in this case seems shortsighted. Either party could have completely removed the debt ceiling. Let's face it, there isn't one already. The "debt ceiling" as we see it is always going to be increased as needed.

mrguyorama 3y ago
Horseshit. The republican party recently added 3 trillion to the debt. They don't care about the debt. This is just an attempt to be destructive so they can blame it on Biden. You cannot "both sides" one party trying to run the country semi-functionally against the other party hell bent on making things dysfunctional.
- m348e912 3y ago
  I'm not blaming both sides, I am saying there aren't any sides. It's a systemic issue that in recent history has transcended whichever party controls congress or the executive branch.
acdha 3y ago
I think it’s entirely reasonable to blame the only party which threatens to stop paying the bills when they can’t get what they want through the normal legislative process. The Republicans do this because they don’t want to take the heat for actually cutting popular services which they’d have to do if they made changes to the budget. Most of the debt we have now was added by them adding things their voters wanted to the budget, so it’s basically trying to skip out on the check after enjoying dinner. If Democrats start doing that, I’ll criticize them as well but they don’t.
kasey_junk 3y ago
This is an issue you can truly blame one party for. The Democrats have never threatened to default via it and the Republicans have only done so when a Democrat holds the White House. It’s hypocritical political brinksmanship of the worst sort that hurts the average American worse than basically any other decision congress can make. By trying to let the Republicans in Congress off the hook for this you enable them to keep doing it until the idiot faction of their party truly runs us over the cliff one day.

mrguyorama 3y ago

Horseshit. The republican party recently added 3 trillion to the debt. They don't care about the debt. This is just an attempt to be destructive so they can blame it on Biden. You cannot "both sides" one party trying to run the country semi-functionally against the other party hell bent on making things dysfunctional.

m348e912 3y ago
I'm not blaming both sides, I am saying there aren't any sides. It's a systemic issue that in recent history has transcended whichever party controls congress or the executive branch.

acdha 3y ago

I think it’s entirely reasonable to blame the only party which threatens to stop paying the bills when they can’t get what they want through the normal legislative process. The Republicans do this because they don’t want to take the heat for actually cutting popular services which they’d have to do if they made changes to the budget. Most of the debt we have now was added by them adding things their voters wanted to the budget, so it’s basically trying to skip out on the check after enjoying dinner. If Democrats start doing that, I’ll criticize them as well but they don’t.

kasey_junk 3y ago

This is an issue you can truly blame one party for. The Democrats have never threatened to default via it and the Republicans have only done so when a Democrat holds the White House. It’s hypocritical political brinksmanship of the worst sort that hurts the average American worse than basically any other decision congress can make. By trying to let the Republicans in Congress off the hook for this you enable them to keep doing it until the idiot faction of their party truly runs us over the cliff one day.