McConnell: 'Our Country Is Not Going to Default'

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There will probably be a default and McConnell knows it.  What this statement tells me is that he believes this is not going to be well received by the markets or, eventually, the public, and he wants ensure that his own political position is not endangered.  Say what you will about the man, he is very very good at sniffing the political wind.

No fucking kidding.  We won't default.  Last time I saw so much crap made up for the brainwashing of the people Anna Nicole Smith was in the picture.  We defaulted in September of '08.  You know when the whole world realized that we were a house of cards, but no one wanted to stop playing and live in caves and eat frogs?  We just printed tons of money and covered all the defaults everywhere?  Try doing that in your personal life.  Do you not get that nothing makes us look more stable than pretending to have some problem that we could solve?  We ran off the rails years ago and eventually we will sit down and decide whether we can feed grandma without asking Bill Gates for a dime for his ability to keep every penny of his income tax for a charitable donation of his choice which probably ain't your grandma, or we decide that every citizen, if they get to be a citizen, should share in not only the wealth but the changing of grandma's diaper.  But, to keep the whole world spinning on our plate we gotta do this crap.  Fine with me--I don't like frogs.  But, I do find it fucking amazing that last month I made 63 thousand dollars and paid about a third in taxes, but when my kid worked at Staples and made 8 bucks an hour he got four bucks.  How hard is that to understand?  You think my life will end if I paid ten grand more?  And people making 8 bucks are fighting to keep me my money?  Is this country nuts or what?  And I only said a third cause of who knows who's listening?  But it's all legal if I can hire someone to get me to 27%.  And I ain't even rich.  If I were rich I could get to 11.

An Un-Holy Trinity Ronald Regan  HW Bush  GW Bush Regan began this nightmare, Big Daddy Bush sank the next stake in the heart to the American Economy and the final blow....GW Bush Regan and his pipe dream of Trickle Down (your leg) Economics and the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy saddled the debt squarely on the middle class also opening the doors for massive exports of American Jobs Now to stop? the fiasco begun so may years ago the broken Middle class is seeing their wages slashed as the country continues to hemorrhage jobs overseas    And the Republican Answer? They have none, saddle the debt on the overburdened Americans who can least afford to pay it and let the Rich skate by Now they want to reduce debt after they themselves are the ones who spent trillions on a war or multiple wars that should never have been fought because the Bible says the "Anti-Christ will arise out of the Middle East and they believe their fairy tales to the extent they have destroyed their own country