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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:24 PM Original message |
So if Debt Ceiling were not raised, would that one fact stop the Wars? |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. No. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. In any sane and decent world, this would |
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FirstLight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. they passed the defense bill with no quibbling... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Our government possesses such crippling "non-lethal" |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Good points. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
5. It will accelerate the end of the Empire, as in official that is, |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. That would be a good thing. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Not with the pain that would come with it |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. The pain is coming here to us anyway you slice it. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. A hard landing will be far more painful than a soft landing |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I wish I had your depth of perception. What I see is Humanicide. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Oh yes there is a difference |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 03:58 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Again, I must be lacking your depth of perception. And if you would take |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Hard landing means Norquist's dream |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. We may be looking at the same sketch, but we are seeing different pictures |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. kill the War Industry? |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
9. No. They'll starve me and you to pay for the wars. (n/t) |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
16. Yes... |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
18. I would think funding has already been allocated |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
19. Nope. Soldiers stop getting paid, and defense contractors already have their FY11 money |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 05:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Good to know that FY 2012 starts this October. |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Actually, no |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 05:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I work for a defense contractor. We already have our funding through the end of the year. n/t |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
22. Only if we abandon the troops where they stand .... |
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