Boehner's Policies Would Turn U.S. into a Giant Debtors Prison

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House Speaker John Boehner has announced that he will insist on spending cuts to offset any increase in the debt limit.

When George Santayana wrote that "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it," he must have been looking at the future. It's tempting to say he was staring at the image of John Boehner in some crystal ball on his desk when he penned those words in The Life of Reason more than a century ago.

There are men like Boehner in any age - there just seems to be an abundance of them in this one. But when it comes to forgetting history, memories aren't supposed to be quite so short. Wasn't it just last summer that Boehner and his ilk tried to shut down the government by demanding austerity of a nation already beaten down by the worst economic downturn in three-quarters of a century?

How'd that work for you, Mr. Boehner?Isn't it ironic that so many Republicans like to quote the Bible in one breath and, in the next, preach an unforgiving gospel of economic servitude? I have to wonder what would happen if they were to truly adopt some of the principles contained in the biblical scriptures: a jubilee year in which all debts would be erased; a prohibition on lending at interest; a simple yet profound attitude of forgiveness.

Read more in The Provocation.

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1. It's a feature, not a bug

The people promulgating these policies are pretty confident that they will never slip off the fast track, and they'll never be subject to taking the medicine they so liberally prescribe for the rest of us. But if they do, the complaining you'll hear would make a banshee cover her ears.