They're at it again... the Tea Party is going to ruin the country....

[habsheaven]

You realize the Dems still lost the house Majority right?

Thought so.

Yeah, I realize that. You realize the party in power in the Senate and the WH despite the ACA? I thought so.

[habsheaven]

Lol!!!!!!!

Notice his response was slander?

FYI, slander is the SPOKEN WORD. Unless he is sitting next to you, he is not slandering you. Not that what he typed, if spoken, would be slander anyway. Pick up a dictionary once in a while.

[GroundSupport]

FYI, slander is the SPOKEN WORD. Unless he is sitting next to you, he is not slandering you. Not that what he typed, if spoken, would be slander anyway. Pick up a dictionary once in a while.

Thanks Canada.

[dxchamphhh]

ITT: The Dunning-Kruger Effect

[Wickabee]

Thanks Canada.

He's right. What you were referring to is libel, not slander.

The fact he's Canadian has nothing to do with anything, unless you aimed to prove yourself a bigot.

[tpeichel]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/20...bt_crisis.html

Schweikert ticked off ways that he, as a county treasurer, had sought balance. "The basic repo desk, running your ladders on your debt—it's stunning that the politicians in the administration care more about keeping this as a wedge than the international markets. Even Geithner made it clear that he had the ability to prioritize. I don't know who this new Jack Lew is. He's not the same guy I knew 10 years ago when he backed Clinton ... there is no such thing as default unless there is an actual evil attempt from the administration. When you have 18 percent of GDP coming in in cash, less than 2 percent going out in debt coverage—I'm stunned you all fall for it in the press. None of you were math majors, were you?"

[tpeichel]

So your wife secretly runs up credit card and you no longer can get any additional credit. Do you blame your wife or someone else?

Imac, you never did tell me who you would blame if your wife ran up the credit card.

[habsheaven]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/20...bt_crisis.html

Schweikert ticked off ways that he, as a county treasurer, had sought balance. "The basic repo desk, running your ladders on your debt—it's stunning that the politicians in the administration care more about keeping this as a wedge than the international markets. Even Geithner made it clear that he had the ability to prioritize. I don't know who this new Jack Lew is. He's not the same guy I knew 10 years ago when he backed Clinton ... there is no such thing as default unless there is an actual evil attempt from the administration. When you have 18 percent of GDP coming in in cash, less than 2 percent going out in debt coverage—I'm stunned you all fall for it in the press. None of you were math majors, were you?"

Pretty sure many of the ECONOMISTS painting a dire picture of default are math majors. The bolded in your quote presents a very simplistic snapshot of two factors that go into funding the government. I am sure the non-math majors it is aimed at will buy into it. Those of us that know better, brush it off as more political cherry picking of facts.

[Imac7065]

You know what the people people saying "there won't be any issue not extending the debt ceiling and we won't default" also say?

-We live in the end times
-Evolution is a hoax
-There is no such thing as climate change
-The world is 6000 years old
-Man walked with dinosaurs
-Jesus will return in my life time

I wish I was exaggerating but I am not. These are the lunatics these people are.

[tpeichel]

You know what the people people saying "there won't be any issue not extending the debt ceiling and we won't default" also say?

-We live in the end times
-Evolution is a hoax
-There is no such thing as climate change
-The world is 6000 years old
-Man walked with dinosaurs
-Jesus will return in my life time

I wish I was exaggerating but I am not. These are the lunatics these people are.

Do you think name calling is a persuasive technique? Anyone who disagrees with you is a lunatic, crazy, nutjob, or teabagger.

If the country pays the interest on our debt, do we still default? Yes or no?