What Is The REAL Immediate Threat/Crisis... The Debt... Or Unemployment...

[WillyT]

Me. Unemployment.

You?

:shrug:

[hifiguy]

1. Unemployment

Nothing will lower the defecit faster than putting people back to work so that they are paying taxes except taxing the plutocrat class at appropriately confiscatory rates.

[DJ13]

2. If DC would concentrate on growth the deficit would decrease on its own

Want higher revenues?

Increase the tax base.

Problem solved, and no cuts to SS are needed.

[eilen]

3. I like the pants option

as in
"the problem is in my pants".

For those of us Weinerites.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. That's a point of view thing...and the answer is both.

For the unemployed, (which is me) unemployment is the great personal crises. Debt is a manufactured national crises that can make unemployment much worse if it is used to take the economy into a second and deeper dip. If they passed it, literally no one wold have noticed. It is being used to force right wing ideology upon everyone. If they don't pass it, there will be financial repercussions that will make things worse and perhaps much worse.

Personally, I think it is being used to force the U.S. into a situation like Greece, where deep and wide austerity measures will be used to dismantle everything but national defense. Whether manufactured or existential, both are real crises that have will bring real human misery.

[girl gone mad]

5. The deficit is not even a long term crisis at this point.

I'm tired of hearing supposed progressives claim we need to be worried about the deficit.

[emulatorloo]

6. Unemployment - but if debt ceiling doesn't get raised, unemployment is gonna get even worse.

[Rex]

7. Both and the never ending wars.

That trifecta is going to send us all to the poor house.

[notadmblnd]

8. According to Eric Cantor who I was watching a few minutes ago on Cspan

"If people want to get back to work, they need to pay less taxes so that they will create jobs" His exact quote, I swear. :crazy:

[Harry Callahan]

9. Aided by the power of 20/20 hindsight, the people of Greece would say the debt.