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To: The Looking Spoon
Advocates of this approach cite the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which states that the “validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be questioned.”

Being liberals, i.e., liars, the media omitted a significant phrase: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."

If the debt has not been authorized by law (and it has NOT), then this Amendment is not applicable to the situation.

2 posted on 07/07/2011 6:02:32 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Pollster1

Even if the President tried to issue debt above the legally authorized limit, can you envision anyone who would buy it?


4 posted on 07/07/2011 7:54:38 PM PDT by etcb
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