re: #92 Obdicut

We can’t simply choose not to pay our debts. It’s not an option. Debts have to be paid.

This is an obvious thing.

It is weird how quickly people have picked up on the GOP’s various lies and positioning on this: That raising the debt ceiling is ‘spending’, that there is any way we could choose not to raise the debt ceiling and still be upholding one of the most basic ethical and piratical underpinnings of our society: the government pays its debts.

Well, we could choose not to pay, but the results would be disastrous. But what I think LLH was saying (and he can correct me if I’m wrong) is that the decision as to whether to borrow or to pay debts rightfully belongs to the Congress, not to the President. Congress is the branch of government given the power of the purse. Giving the president power to borrow as he sees fit reduces that power.