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Javaman

(62,530 posts) Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:54 AM Oct 2013

Which do you think will happen with the debt ceiling?

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Which do you think will happen with the debt ceiling? (Original Post) Javaman Oct 2013 OP

I think it will depend on how much alsame Oct 2013 #1

Tea party types vote "Go into default; it's no big deal". pampango Oct 2013 #2

alsame

(7,784 posts)

1. I think it will depend on how much

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:06 AM

Oct 2013

outside pressure they get. If their big donors pressure them to raise it, they will. If not, I think they would be perfectly happy to default. They have no principles or concern for the country, they only care about their own money and jobs.

pampango

(24,692 posts)

2. Tea party types vote "Go into default; it's no big deal".

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:25 AM

Oct 2013

http://www.people-press.org/2013/10/07/partisans-dug-in-on-budget-health-care-impasse/

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