House GOP revolts against Boehner plan

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Ron Paul's voting record is impeccable. I can find a link to how he has voted if you want. I get every vote that he and my Senators has done sent straight to my email.

Sorry, I meant to the inaccuracy of the recent polls. IE only polling the coasts, or avoiding texas.

[^_^ 5,021]

I think we deserve a downgrade for our being so fiscally reckless. We need to now go and re earn our stellar rating back by being fiscally responsible.

That's like saying I shouldn't pay my next credit card bill because I spent too much and deserve the lower credit score.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Voting against the ones that put you in office is suicide.

So, Tea Partiers are going to force a downgrade in the credit rating of this country to preserve their seat in the House? I thought they ran on the anger against the establishment representatives that saw their political self-preservation as the highest priority? And here we are six months in and all they think about is their political self-preservation? Even if that means that the US is going to lose it's AAA credit rating? Send the country down the crapper as long as I get to hold onto my seat in Washington? Short lived principles, eh?

Edited July 26, 2011 by Mr. Big Dog

[웃 910]

I think we deserve a downgrade for our being so fiscally reckless. We need to now go and re earn our stellar rating back by being fiscally responsible.

That's like saying I shouldn't pay my next credit card bill because I spent too much and deserve the lower credit score.

No. It's like saying I had excellent credit for my entire life. Always made payments on time and debt was manageable. One day the credit bureaus started to notice too much spending, too high a debt to credit ratio, and practically maxed out on all credit cards (despite on time payments).

They decide to lower my credit score a notch.

Edited July 26, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[luckytxn 2,265]

That's like saying I shouldn't pay my next credit card bill because I spent too much and deserve the lower credit score.

No it is not. It is more like I am reckless and run up huge deficits and not even my income can support the minimums so my credit rating takes a hit. Now my credit cards has been maxed out and they will no longer increase the limit until I become more responsible and pay down the debt and so on. I can no longer get the best rates because of the fear that I am going to go into bankruptcy. Now if I come up with a responsible plan and adhere to it over time they will relax my rating and even give me better terms to help me. Until I become better at debt then why should they help me?

No. It's like saying I had excellent credit for my entire life. Always made payments on time and debt was manageable. One day the credit bureaus started to notice too much spending, too high a debt to credit ratio, and practically maxed out on all credit cards (despite on time payments).

They decide to lower my credit score a notch.

Bingo.

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No. It's like saying I had excellent credit for my entire life. Always made payments on time and debt was manageable. One day the credit bureaus started to notice too much spending, too high a debt to credit ratio, and practically maxed out on all credit cards (despite on time payments).

They decide to lower my credit score a notch.

I was referring to the consequences of non-payment (default).

[luckytxn 2,265]

Sorry, I meant to the inaccuracy of the recent polls. IE only polling the coasts, or avoiding texas.

What polls? All you said was the polls said some such. No link to the poll or anything like that at all. Now you expect me to agree with what you said? I and another said something about polls and you take umbrage that we didn't blindly agree with you.

I am talking about the individual congressional districts that have voted in certain congresspersons that promised to vote a certain way. If they now stab us in the back then they will be skewered as they should be. They also came in and said they would vote for a budget under certain conditions. If those conditions are not there then why be surprised that the congressman don't vote for it?

I was referring to the consequences of non-payment (default).

The payments will come at some time. Do you think if they default that it will be permanent? So the ones holding the debt are paid a week or even a month later.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

What polls? All you said was the polls said some such. No link to the poll or anything like that at all. Now you expect me to agree with what you said? I and another said something about polls and you take umbrage that we didn't blindly agree with you.

I am talking about the individual congressional districts that have voted in certain congresspersons that promised to vote a certain way. If they now stab us in the back then they will be skewered as they should be. They also came in and said they would vote for a budget under certain conditions. If those conditions are not there then why be surprised that the congressman don't vote for it?

The payments will come at some time. Do you think if they default that it will be permanent? So the ones holding the debt are paid a week or even a month later.

I took umbrage at that? I don't think so.

[luckytxn 2,265]

I took umbrage at that? I don't think so.

OK. Thanks for playing. Next.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

OK. Thanks for playing. Next.

Next what?

Or are you looking for clothes at Next?

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[mawilson 2,133]

The payments will come at some time. Do you think if they default that it will be permanent? So the ones holding the debt are paid a week or even a month later.

That's what "default" means - a failure to make timely payment of interest or principal on a debt.

[HeatDeath 430]

The US's credit rating needs to fall, because it is ridiculously, obviously, massively inflated. The US's debt to GDP ratio is 98 freakin' percent! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt ] You're telling me that a normal person with a credit card balance equivalent to a year's salary would still keep a AAA credit rating as long as they kept making minimum payments? That's ridiculous!

Any reduction to the US's credit rating will be a perfectly legitimate correction to one of the crassest, most transparent lies in the entire financial world.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

The US's credit rating needs to fall, because it is ridiculously, obviously, massively inflated. The US's debt to GDP ratio is 98 freakin' percent! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt ] You're telling me that a normal person with a credit card balance equivalent to a year's salary would still keep a AAA credit rating as long as they kept making minimum payments? That's ridiculous!

Any reduction to the US's credit rating will be a perfectly legitimate correction to one of the crassest, most transparent lies in the entire financial world.

Since when is a normal person = a nation?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Exactly. If the polls are done mostly in Socialist areas then there is going to be a huge skew in poll numbers. Now I am in Ron Pauls district and I know how he is voting and confident he will vote as he always does. That is why we vote him back comfortably everytime. If he starts voting against my wishes then I and many will vote him out easily.

I think we deserve a downgrade for our being so fiscally reckless. We need to now go and re earn our stellar rating back by being fiscally responsible.

You won't do that by crashing the global economy and giving your house keys over to China.

[HeatDeath 430]

Since when is a normal person = a nation?

Falling pebbles and million-ton avalanches follow the same law of gravity. Issues of scale may change the coefficients, but they can't turn a negative term into a positive one.