re: #11 Vicious Babushka

What does it mean? You still owe everything that you rang up on your credit - plus interest and fees. Cutting up the credit cards doesn’t eliminate your debt or obligations. Those are going to continue piling up.

Refusing to increase the debt ceiling isn’t quite the same as cutting up the credit cards, but it’s close.

These people don’t get that Congress appropriates how much to spend. They agreed to these expenditures. They now want to welch on their obligations.

But more to the point, when directly asked what specific programs can or should be cut, they don’t know.

They say Interior Department, and then remind them that the NPS is part, you get blank stares.

They say HHS, and then that would include the National Cancer Institute, CDC, and FDA.

They say Energy Department, and that includes work that carries over to the Defense Department (national labs).

NASA? Same thing.

Education Department? Tough to do when their job is to essentially oversee transfer payments to states to fund education.

Etc.