Boehner walks, guarantees rating downgrade for the USA

[linedancer563]

Boehner has walked away from the debt talks.

Moody's and S&P have been saying for months that if we don't have at least a $4 trillion deficit reduction deal over a decade that they would downgrade the USA's credit rating from AAA.

They also said that any short-term extension of the debt ceiling would result in a downgrade from AAA.

So... now it's guaranteed we're going to lose the AAA rating. Thanks, Speaker Boehner, Eric Cantor, and the rest of the House Republicans.

 

[kaitlyn lindsay]

So you want us to be a nation of bums who don't pay our bills. You're a class act.

 

[xxLostxxSoulxx]

Thanks Obama, too!

 

[Real Deal]

End the wars? That's what the liberals want
Let Bush tax cuts expire? That's what the liberals want
Reduce military spending? That's what the liberals want
Gut medicare and social security? Liberals don't want that... but millions of poor southern rednecks would shit themselves.

 

[soccerluva]

Yeah, the the government should just wave its magical job creation wand and create millions of high paying jobs! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before? You must have gone to college or something!

 

[randyj4ever]

This guy has

 

[King of the Hill]

My respect for Boehner doubled today.

 

[mr.shawn37]

Maybe I was less-than-clear;

I'm not in favor of using Temps as a regular practice, though they do work for short-term increases in workload.

I was just speculating on why a business might rely on them more heavily in an uncertain environment rather than hire a permanent employee and assuming the responsibilities/obligations that go along with it.

 

[emmabugg]

why couldn't private sector do this?

 

[oneup117]

How about the part where Obama and his democrats refuse to back down from their position?

 

[somanyquestions]

if by created millions of high paying jobs, you mean he destroyed all high-paying jobs and replaced them with wartime jobs that paid pittance

 

[karissalla]

The Dems aren't Liberal enough...and the Repubs aren't [fiscally] Conservative enough. Which is why deficit spending and "trickle-down' is the name of the game regardless of who is in charge.


Two piles of the same shit, Bro.

 

[MiiSS B3CK3Y C33]

Hoover's economic policies caused the Great Depression - not FDR's.

You're the biggest idiot on this board.

 

[chickennugget128]

That's not the idea I gathered from your post. You seemed to be implying that the government should create the needed jobs. I apologize if I misread you.

 

[mkpcpride]

A defeatist extremist. How cute.

 

[calmlikeatimebomb]

Don't forget to gut welfare and Medicaid too.......millions of entitled minorities would shit themselves and join the southern rednecks.

 

[Lisette O]

Are you durab? Do you see how pissed off liberals are over the cuts? Dems are giving their shit up. Republicans aren't doing shit.

 

[youdontknowme]

The private sector is unwilling to invest in new jobs when the cost of the job is as yet unknown. Given this administration's propensity to vilify, take over, tax, regulate or shut down private companies...it is not unreasonable to expect corporations to recalibrate their options.

 

[Cute_tweety_boo]

An uncertain regulatory environment isn't helping.

 

[Keirsten]

Good for him. It's about time that the government has to live within their fucking means or suffer the consequences for their actions (and in-actions to cut spending), like the rest of us.