As rumors swirl that the Treasury Department may soon push back it’s August 2 deadline for raising the debt ceiling, GOP leaders appear to be growing more defiant. From The Hill:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday rejected Aug. 2 as the final deadline for Congress to raise the government’s credit limit before the U.S. defaults on its debt.
“Dealing with this deficit problem is far more important than meeting some artificial date created by the Treasury secretary,” Boehner said in an interview taped for Fox News’s “Hannity.”
Daniel J. Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a former economist of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, said in May:
Well, we know that’s true.
We are well over $14.3 Trillion in debt.
Obama had Timmy G. at Treasury shift the goalposts.
We are only counting the first $14,288,456,907,315 of the $14,458,528,014,267.
so, we are OK until Aug 2nd, supposedly.
Nan G, hi,
IF I would receive my bill like every month and see those numbers that would need 3 sheets of the same bill,
I would certainly lower my debt, but they don’t care because they feel It’s not their debt,
they are not paying it with their money,only the AMERICANS ARE PAYING,
that is their mentality, they haven’t learn to love AMERICA and why they are there for,
that should be the question to ask them, and you would see how much time it would take him to answer,
that would be very telling to AMERICANS
bye