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Showing posts with label debt ceiling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt ceiling. Show all posts

Friday, August 5, 2011

S and P Downgrades US Debt From AAA to AA+...

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The Tea Party was right and the Democrats along with the GOP Gentry were wrong.

CBS:

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says it has downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings.

The credit rating agency says that it is cutting the country's top AAA rating by one notch to AA-plus. The credit agency said late Friday that it is making the move because the deficit reduction plan passed by Congress on Tuesday did not go far enough to stabilize the country's debt situation.


Of course, the Obama Administration claims that S&P 's rating has "deep and fundamental flaws" because S&P doesn't understand credit.

This comes on the heels of the debt ceiling debate in which the left argued that US debt would be downgraded if the ceiling was not raised and that attempts to address the fundamental problem of overspending by "holding the debt ceiling hostage" would result in a downgrading of US debt. The left was wrong and the GOP Gentry was too soft.

This is yet another rebuke for the Obama Administration the left and the GOP Gentry and is a sad sad day for the nation.


Update:

Legal Insurrection:

Democrats own the downgrade. They fought Republicans and Tea Party supporters every step of they way, and forced a deal which was insufficient. They played class warfare and race politics against arguments that we needed to drastically change our spending habits.

This is Barack Obama and Harry Reid’s crowning achievement.




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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Plainly Pained by a Planless President...

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Poor Carney, caught between a bystander of a president and a suddenly ballsy press.

Show us the President's plan...





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A Blasphemous Use for Keynesian Theory...

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It seems that if, as Keynesians argue, the economy suffers as a result of government spending cuts during contractions then Keynesian logic would dictate that tax cuts commensurate with those cuts in government spending during contractions would be in order.




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Monday, July 25, 2011

Impressing the Fiscal Reality of Delayed Fiscal Coherence...

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We have lived under a broken debt funded system so long we no longer recognize a functioning system when we see one.

Our representatives are in power to reconcile needs and wants with our fiscal ability to meet those needs and wants. Doing so is difficult. That difficulty combined with cheap borrowing costs has lead to an over reliance on debt rather than doing the hard work of reconciling fiscal incoherence.

What we see today, the hard and messy work of reconciling fiscal incoherence, is healthy. One party understands that, the other does not and requires the coercive fear of limited debt availability to reign in their unreal dependence on other people's money, or more accurately, another generation's prosperity.

No, it is not simple; impressing reality on the irrational rarely is.



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