re: #16 Spocomptonite

Frankly the 14th (Clause 4) should make the whole debt ceiling talk moot. We have to go through this every few years and the ceiling gets raised, even though the Constitution says that:

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

That’s what makes the whole discussion so infuriating because few seem to understand what’s going on here, including the talking heads who spout off endlessly on what this means.