Officials Will Brief Public on Which Bills Will Be Paid, Which Not, After Markets Close Friday

The American people pay into Social Security out of each paycheck. Money paid by the American Working Classes blood,sweat and tears. In the hope that someday our children will do the same for us. If the American People pay into Social Security in the coming weeks and the Government does not use that money for Social Security payments, than isn’t that fraud?
Like giving someone money for your part of a cell phone bill and later finding out it was never used to pay that bill and your service is cut off.
A rational individual would find their proof of payment and march straight to small claims court, do to fraud.
We paid to protect our senior citizens and if our government chooses to not pay them and instead uphold the interest of other countries, that is FRAUD and we the people should sue you for this.

The first item on the list of things that should NOT be paid is the Congressional salaries and benefits (as well as the President and Vice President).
If they are not doing their job, why should they be paid?

So, Conservative Republican support of this bill represents their final compromise – but the liberal Dems and the President will insist on yet more compromise, while continuing to claim that Repubs are intransigent. So still, there is no search for solution, but instead only for political compromise. Stupid.

“If there is no clear path out of this morass by tomorrow”
and let’s be clear about this. The House Republicans have been the only serious players attempting to lead us out of this “morass.” Once the Boehner plan gets approved today (which I think it will) then its up to the Senate and Obama to get this thing done. It seems to be the only option out there and it’s a fair one.

Compromise on the repub side? What compromise? The Boehner bill has no dem support in the house. At best it is a compromise between the repub factions. It is certainly not a bi-partisan bill.
Just goes to show how distorted this discussion has become when a partisan bill is called a “compromise”.

Why not ask $arah Palin what she would do. She likes making snide comments but she never seems to have creditable answers. Now is the time for her to show us her intelligence and presidential leadership……….

Sounds great to me! Prioritize!!! That is what we’ve needed all along. Without a budget, and with carte blanche on the spending end, no one ever has to prioritize. Yes, Mr Obama, if you don’t have enough money to purchase everything you want, what will your purchasing priorities be? Put your priorities on the table for all the world top see – for once.

“Hope all who voted for the Tea Party are happy. They promised not to raise the debt ceiling and will not vote for it. So now we will all go down. Stupid! together with the GOP they are ruining this country. I will never vote for any of them ever!” -Barb
Barb, if the debt ceiling isn’t frozen at some point, then what you’re saying is that there should be no limit on what the government should be allowed to borrow -i.e. government debt should be limitless.
I know it’s painful to make decisions like the ones we’re talking about, but the ‘infinite amount of money’ that would prevent this catastrophe doesn’t exist.

I bet they’ll get their check.

“The debt ceiling has NOTHING to do with a budget or spending.” -MaeMobly
Then it must be the only thing inside the beltway, besides the gravitational constant (and even that’s debatable), that has NOTHING to do with a budget or spending.

Obama is a phony.

This neo-Libertarian GOP has become infiltrated with fantasy land Ayn Rand devotees. Politicians like Paul Ryan lead the charge: radical individualism is the ONLY way forward. Concern for the collective good is evil socialism.
If these tea-soaked delusional people get their way, the entire nation will find our social safety net unraveled – from Medicare to Medicaid, Veterans’ Benefits to Social Security, unemployment insurance to public education.
HOW LONG will it be before the middle class and working people – Republicans and Democrats – FINALLY realize these neo-Libertarians are guided by a work of FICTION that creates a reality of misery for the rest of us.
Yes, yes, we need to cut “government waste” – but helping the sick, elderly, handicapped and unemployed is not “waste”. The ONLY way to truly balance future budgets and pay off long term debt is to RAISE TAXES.

“AND yes Soc. Sec. is OUR money but for the past DECADES they have been borrowing from it.” What utter tripe. There are those collecting from Social Security who never paid into it, and the money being paid now is coming from people who are curently working.

green.goddess; Is Ayn Rand the only author you’ve ever read? It’s getting OLD!

“There are those collecting from Social Security who never paid into it, and the money being paid now is coming from people who are currently working.”
See? What did I just say? Citizens who are elderly, unable to work, sick, handicapped are in the “non-producers” or “moochers” or “sponges” in the neo-Libertarian Republican fantasy land.
Unfortunately, they ignore the fact that Ayn Rand became old too – she developed lung cancer and eventually needed to use SOCIAL SECURITY and government funded health care.
What ever happened to the American belief in the common good? In repaying your country for the gifts our nation gave us? Whatever happened to, “we are only as strong as the weakest among us”? Communism! Socialism! Maybe even Christianity.

We will NOT default on our debt, we have plenty of money to pay our interest, social security, military, medicare, etc. Maybe the President should not pay all his Czars, all his wife’s staff, not fly on air force one daily, stop the war in Libya, stop paying Congress and himself, etc. Harry Reid, Nancy and the President ignored this for three years, now they want to blame anybody but themselves.

I love it that Ayn Rand annoys you.

One point we are missing here is that the money for Social Security is borrowed–borrowed–not sitting in a lock box somewhere. Let’s get a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution and solve this problem permanently. Why don’t Obama/Democrats want to act responsibly and live on a budget???If they want to create more tax dollars then we need more jobs!!! Stop Obamacare, stop the excessive regulations. lower the business tax rate,reduce the size of government and stop wasting our tax dollars!!!

Obama has spent a lot of time grinding on CEO’s and “big corporations”. They, at least, are required to operate within a budget or face shareholder revolt. Of course government doesn’t even have to sell to customers – it just raises prices (taxes) and then spends it as it pleases. Then, some silver-tongued devil makes the sale every four years (always with promises – never with achievements)and raises your prices again. Folks, you have a chance to bring this to an end.

Jake Tapper – do your homework and quit spewing the Obama Regime montra! Social Security payments, active duty payments and retired military payments are required to be paid by law and the Obama Regime can not stop those payments. They are not part of the budget plan as they are paid out of a different pot. They only way they are stopped being paid is if Obama tells the Treasury to stop paying them and he doesn’t have that authority. So Jake Tapper stop acting like an Obamaite stooge and reserach this yourself.

Larry the debt ceiling is about already spent money.
Posted by: MaeMobly | Jul 28, 2011 9:30:18 AM
And who already spent that money? The DEMS and OBAMA the last 2 1/2 years!

Obama is just adding to more reasons for his impeachment. His fiduciary irresponsibility to protec the general welfare of America has been jeopardized by his posturing. His going to war in Libya without congressional approval and his “Fast and Furious” program at the southern border which led to the death of a border patrol agent and murder and mayem in Mexico is just some of his various crimes.

First priority should be to meet all debt obligations and thus demonstrate to rating agencies the creditworthiness of the USA. Second should be to pay the troops who defend us and advance our cause. Third should be Social Security to meet our obligations to seniors for the money withheld from their pay checks and for the promises made. Then Medicare for the same reasons. Then Medicaid for the indigent sick. Finally, the remaining funds might be divided proportionately among all other programs and entitlements. There now, Obama, was that so hard?

simple solution to this problem, kill Obamacare right this minute. Shorten unemployments benefits two weeks. Cut the welfare thugs pay in half and reduce the foodstamps to half. There problem solved

People need to claim exempt on Friday. That way Obama and Dems can’t spend your money.

There is no way you can take from the elderly, it matters not if they paid into it or NOT!
You cannot say to a child who is disabled there is no food or midications for you today because the President of our Country vetoed a bill!!
You cannot say to the sick sorry you cannot have that life ensuring operation!!
You cannot say to a Veteran who fought in a war to save the skins of everyone in the USA your not entitled to a pension even if your legs were blown off and you saw all your comrades die!!
There are laws that protect these innocent individuals!!

Once upon a time, a farmer had a goose that laid eggs made of gold, two of them every day. For many years, he carefully gathered the eggs and used the gold to pay for the things he needed, saving the surplus for the future. Soon, he found there were a LOT of things he needed, and he bought them all, since he had plenty of gold saved up to pay for them. In time, he ran out of his surplus, and the two eggs the goose laid each day were insufficient to support his new lifestyle. He began to buy the things he so desperately needed by promising to pay for them later. Many merchants offered him credit, as he had always paid his bills before. However, with only two gold eggs each day, he could never pay off all of his debts AND continue to buy the things he absolutely could not live without. At last, when the merchants were hounding him for their money back, he decided to solve his problems with a simple solution: he would kill the goose and take all of her golden eggs at one time!
Anyone who needs to have the outcome of this brilliant plan explained to them has probably already been elected to Congress.

** Jeez, the House has had two bills so far; not the Senate… that was a boneheaded typo. The Senate doesn’t have a plan to vote on yet (and wont for Several weeks still).

Impeach the President; Investigate Fast and Furious; any man that demagogues an issue like retired folks’s pensions is a man without character. Investigate this man; his party and stand by for some replacement actions for high crimes and misdemeanors!

Tea Party took something simple and trun it into a crisis. I like to known why the United States allows 80 people to hold the creidt of the oounty hostage so they can get their way. If this was some out side threat we would have gotten rid of them by now.