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OfflineFrankieJustTrypt
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Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised
    #3318121 - 11/04/04 12:13 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)



HAHAHAHAHAHA,.... oh shit I live here too....

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White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration announced Wednesday that it will run out of maneuvering room to manage the government's massive borrowing needs in two weeks, putting more pressure on Congress to raise the debt ceiling when it convenes for a special post-election session.

Treasury Department officials announced that they will be able to conduct a scheduled series of debt auctions next week to raise $51 billion. However, an auction of four-week Treasury bills due to be completed on Nov. 18 will have to be postponed unless Congress acts before then to raise the debt ceiling.

"Due to debt limit constraints, we currently do not have the capacity to settle our four-week bill auction scheduled to settle on Nov. 18," Timothy Bitsberger, acting assistant Treasury secretary for financial markets, said in a statement.

Congress is scheduled to return for a lame-duck session beginning on Nov. 16 to deal with the debt ceiling, an omnibus spending plan for the rest of this budget year and other matters.

The Republican-controlled Congress put off dealing with the debt ceiling before adjourning in October, preferring not to force members to vote on the politically sensitive issue of adding to the national debt before the November elections.

The government hit the current debt ceiling of $7.384 trillion on Oct. 14, forcing Treasury to begin a series of bookkeeping maneuvers to keep financing the government's normal operations without breaching the debt ceiling. But Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that those special measures would last only until mid-November.

The Treasury Department's actions have included reducing the amount of debt in government trust funds to free up room for further borrowing from the public. The nonpublic debt is then replaced in the trust funds once the debt ceiling is increased along with any lost interest payments.

Republicans have proposed that the debt ceiling be raised by $690 billion to $8.074 trillion, an amount that would get the government through next September, when the 2005 budget year ends.

The need to raise the debt ceiling reflects the record budget deficits of the past two years. The deficit for the 2004 budget year, which ended Sept. 30, was an all-time high of $413 billion, surpassing the old mark, in dollar terms, of $377 billion in 2003.

Democrats blame the surging deficits on Bush's tax cuts, while the administration contends the tax cuts provided critical economic stimulus to help lift the economy out of the 2001 recession.

The administration says the president has a plan to cut the deficit in half by 2009, but critics contend that the real problems will come in later years as retiring baby boomers put unprecedented strains on Social Security and Medicare.

In its announcement Wednesday, Treasury said it will sell $51 billion in new securities next week including $22 billion in three-year notes on Monday, $15 billion in five-year notes on Tuesday and $14 billion in 10-year bonds on Wednesday.

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InvisibleRandalFlagg
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: FrankieJustTrypt]
    #3318144 - 11/04/04 12:19 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Here is my take on this debt fiasco:

Neither of the major parties will ever make an attempt to get
the federal government to stop spending more money than it takes in.

This means that the federal debt will continue to rise.

Once the debt hits a certain level, an economic crisis will
occur and the U.S. dollar could be devalued.

I hope to have moved out of the country by then.

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OfflineICHMLASC
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #3318227 - 11/04/04 12:55 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

This country is going to hell in more ways than one. In the election the environment was rated as a less important issue than gay marriage. I just don't understand...


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OfflineBleaK
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #3318259 - 11/04/04 01:05 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

its not possible to ever pay off the debt since we buy money with money, and are charged intrest.


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InvisibleLe_Canard
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: FrankieJustTrypt]
    #3318267 - 11/04/04 01:08 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Recession here we come! Thanks Dubya... :frown:

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InvisibleRandalFlagg
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: BleaK]
    #3318273 - 11/04/04 01:12 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)


its not possible to ever pay off the debt since we buy money with
money, and are charged intrest.


If the federal government would stop spending more money than it
took in, it wouldn't have to issue bonds anymore. It wouldn't
have to keep borrowing.

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OfflineBleaK
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #3318350 - 11/04/04 01:41 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

but it can never pay back everything.


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OfflineBleaK
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: BleaK]
    #3318354 - 11/04/04 01:42 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

we pay hundreds of billions in intrest yearly on our 7+ trillion dollar debt thats rapidly rising


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OfflineFrankieJustTrypt
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: BleaK]
    #3318545 - 11/04/04 03:25 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

This is correct. When we borrow money from a central bank, we owe the bank the debt plus interest. Since all money in circulation is a product of a central bank, it is impossible to have enough money in the system to pay the debt.


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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: FrankieJustTrypt]
    #3318593 - 11/04/04 03:58 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

life on the plantation

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Invisible1stimer
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #3318717 - 11/04/04 06:33 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Neither of the major parties will ever make an attempt to get
the federal government to stop spending more money than it takes in.



Actually the Clinton administration had balanced the budget and had a projected 5 trilliion dollar surplus.


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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: 1stimer]
    #3319670 - 11/04/04 12:17 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

They are actually quite possibly pushing the country toward bankruptcy on purpose in order to provide the justification necessary to further cut govenment programs and ultimately "...cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub" (Grover Norquist).


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OfflineMAGnum
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: Source]
    #3319743 - 11/04/04 12:32 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

What the hell does that mean, source?


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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: FrankieJustTrypt]
    #3319756 - 11/04/04 12:34 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

looks like debt PR damage control to me.

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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: MAGnum]
    #3319906 - 11/04/04 01:08 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Aslo known as "Starve the Beast", it's a strategy of deliberately creating a deficit in order to force the government to reduce spending on social causes.


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OfflineBleaK
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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: 1stimer]
    #3320471 - 11/04/04 03:36 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

clinton MAY, have balanced the budget. but theres no way he was going to makeup 12 trillion dollars


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Re: Wasting No Time -- White House: Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised [Re: 1stimer]
    #3321194 - 11/04/04 06:22 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

1stimer said:
Actually the Clinton administration had balanced the budget and had a projected 5 trilliion dollar surplus.



You are wrong. You've been fooled by the Federal budget numbers game - smoke and mirrors. Federal government debt continued to increase under Clinton, although at a slower rate than under Bush. Why is the debt to the Social Security 'trust fund' not included in the calculations? Why is so much spending 'off budget'?


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