Debt Limit Dealin': GOP Can't Accept tax increases? Fine. How about this?

The debt limit was created in order to keep Congress from having to approve each and every debt issuance by Treasury - not, as Speaker Boehner claims to "reign in government spending."

Thanks. You have spoken the unvarnished truth. Boehner has placed ideology and extreme partisan ahead of what's good for America. There's a big difference between the debt ceiling, balancing the budget, and job growth.

Boehner says increasing taxes of the wealthy to balance the budget during a recession will hurt job growth. That's his theory. It is a fact that when government spending is cut during a recession, something advocated by Boehner, many jobs in the public sector will also be lost.

And if the debt ceiling isn't raised, Heaven help us all.

after all this time watching these people and listening to them drone on and on I have come to the conclusion that it's a lost cause. the gop/baggers have made their position well known. we should just cancel all talks and disband congress. send them all home. lock them out. then when everything goes to hell they will be at home where the people who elected them can get to them personally.

the only thing these wrong wing conservative a holes cannot tolerate is an individual that looks like their lawn guy running the country.

It's bad when the GOP puts the Koch Brothers and Norquist before the best interests of this country!

The Red Chinese are laughing at the decline and turmoil of the American Empire. This YouTube video says it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeTMyNs5aA&feature=player_embedded

What more do we need to know. Each Congress member and Obama have to watch this YouTube Red Chinese laugh a rama against the USA until they finally wake up and do the right things.

I truly want my children and grandchildren to enjoy the great and proud and successful capitalistic America for this century and beyond.

The only reason the GOP receives the support of anyone but the rich is that they proclaim to be pro life. It works like this: We are going to make you pay more taxes than the wealthy; we will take your social programs away; we will weaken the public education system so you have a more difficult time succeeding; we will lower regulations on big business so they can take even more advantage of their workers and consumers; we will get involved in more wars so our poor have something to do; and we will laugh at the American people all the way to the bank, but, we are pro life. You have no choice but to support us because we have God on our side. If you support the Dems, you are approving of the murder of babies and you will go to hell. Remember to vote Republican because we are your ticket to heaven. Amen.

Taxed Enough Already, don't you people get it? The more you tax, the more people will lose their jobs and homes. But you don't really care, do you? The only reason you Democrats don't like CC&B is because you didn't think of it first!

I don't think the founding fathers ever envisioned the kind of grid lock that pervades our government. They had good intentions to come up with a system of checks and balances, with trying to figure out representation based on numbers of people per area, and based on equal members for each state. That Congressional idea then morphed into the Presidential electoral college idea.

Now, this gridlock is so destructive, as it just prevents getting things fixed. Gridlock causes bad compromises and kicking the can down the road.

Now, this gridlock is putting the USA into financial jeopardy, a self inflicted stock market crash and crash of the economy. This is crazy nuts stuff.

All of them are doing an insane thing now to fight and promote gridlock. The people are going to riot in the streets if they are forced out of work and the economy goes into a tailspin. There is going to be hell to pay for all of them in Congress, including the President, if a self inflicted financial disaster unravels in the next few days.

Nobody is a saint on this debt debate and crisis. They are all to blame in not getting a solution to save our financial markets and economy.

It should have not even come close to this point.

The GOP is fine with tax increases, just so long as those tax increases are not on the rich. Indeed, their entire scheme to fund discretionary General Fund spending by taking money from Social Security and Medicare amounts to a tax increase on the working man and middle class.

They insist they must not return Social Security and Medicare money to those individuals who have invested in those programs for years, or decades. Why? Their clever idea is to sell cutting Social Security and Medicare payments as some kind of spending cuts, and as a substitute for actually spending cuts in General Fund programs. Indeed, some Republicans have raised the idea that contributions ought to go up, not down, while payouts all go down. The difference will simply be skimmed off the top to pay for government spending.

That amounts to a new and regressive tax.

Who is going to pay for right-wing spending? What General Fund programs are they willing or eager to cut? Who is going to pay for their desired increased spending for guns and war? Who is going to continue to fund tax breaks for Big Corporate and the rich? Who is going to pay for further tax cuts for right-wing pay-masters? Well, according to the right--wing, it's not they who'll pay, it's the rest of us.

The right-wing likes their tax increases just fine, as long as it's not the rich and powerful who are paying for all their favorite spending programs.

Republicans will pay dearly for their actions. Vote em out in 2012,all of them.