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Obama: Raise debt ceiling or risk global recession
Yahoo ^ | 4/15/11 | Ben Feller - AP

Posted on 04/15/2011 11:07:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

CHICAGO (AP) -- Failure by Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit "could plunge the world economy back into recession," President Barack Obama declared Friday, and he acknowledged that he must compromise on spending with Republicans who control the House to avoid such a crisis.

"I think he's absolutely right that it's not going to happen without some spending cuts," the president told The Associated Press in an interview in his hometown, agreeing with House Speaker John Boehner's assessment.

Obama urged swift action, saying he doesn't want the United States to get close to a deadline that would destabilize financial markets. He said he was confident Congress ultimately would raise the limit.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debtceiling; globalrecession; obama; risk
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To: sickoflibs
I certainly agree with you on that. Yesterday we got the $1/2B in net cuts that was advertized as $40B. Today we get the nonbinding long term plan resolution which doesnt save a dime, and we get to hear all the Dem complaining (postering) about it too. It's not a pretty situation. Why did the house make Boehner Speaker after the TARP bill?

I will tell you one good thing.. The Overton Window is moving. I can see it here on FR today.. but it is across the net, folks are starting to put two plus two together and say ah crap!!!. This hit me last Sunday. I have been a mess since, but I really am working on preparing for a few weeks of nuttiness now.. We are being set up and folks are catching on just as fast.

Ultimately, the battle ROYALE will be waged over the Debt Limit just as Beck predicted all those many months ago.. when it just seemed nuts to me.

If the Debt Limit is increased without significant controls and spending cuts immediately, QE3 will have to start almost immediately to keep the treasury auction from failing but the alternative results will be just as catastrophic.

Ultimately, without fiscal control, the US will default on our Debts even with the Debt Ceiling increase because foreign money will insist on debt issued in their own currency. This is the end, and chaos will occur while we deal with the financial upheaval of all of our critical imports being frozen at the ports and on the sea.. while arrangements are made to pay for these goods in something that has a value.

Glenn talked about this when he covered the Default that Iceland went through.. but understand, there are US Citizens who have been working for this day and this event their whole life and they plan to end the United States in this short period and establish something like Chinese control of us..

This would be delusional if someone had said it even 6 months ago, but frankly, Andy Stern is on record calling for just this in May. Funny that this all is on the same schedule.

101 posted on 04/15/2011 6:07:59 PM PDT by dalight
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To: MichaelNewton

Now that’s funny..and don’t worry ..the morons in charge will do just that...


102 posted on 04/15/2011 7:47:54 PM PDT by 853OKG
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To: NormsRevenge

World-wide recession you say? Nothing a good world war couldn’t take care of.

...cue Ride of Valkyries theme..


103 posted on 04/15/2011 7:58:15 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: dalight; PSYCHO-FREEP
Here's my second fun creation at xtranormal/youtube that focuses on the national debt:
A Liberal Democrat explains the why the Social Security Trust Fund is safe
104 posted on 04/15/2011 7:59:10 PM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: sickoflibs
Here's my second fun creation at xtranormal/youtube that focuses on the national debt:
A Liberal Democrat explains the why the Social Security Trust Fund is safe

You did this? It is excellent.

105 posted on 04/15/2011 8:30:28 PM PDT by dalight
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To: dalight
RE :”You did this? It is excellent

Thanks. The Democrats continually claiming there was a SS trust fund on TV without real challenges has been a real annoyance to me so I finally found a way to express it beyond text posts,in a way that was fun.

But my first video was a much bigger hit, >31K views
A Liberal Teacher explains Union Busting

I was able to do those because the subject material sparked my creativity. More to come!

106 posted on 04/15/2011 8:38:04 PM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: sickoflibs
I was able to do those because the subject material sparked my creativity. More to come!

Really awesome. Well done.. you keep at it.. You have a knack and this is just exactly what folks need to hear.

107 posted on 04/15/2011 8:49:14 PM PDT by dalight
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To: dalight
RE :”Really awesome. Well done.. you keep at it.. You have a knack and this is just exactly what folks need to hear.

Thanks again. As far as QE goes I have been doing Federal Reserve dollar devaluation related (warning) posts since late 2008 when I got that religion.

Here's a recent example:
Everybody Knows Bernanke Is a Joke (the Wizard of Oz is now exposed)

In fact comment :#1 on it has my ping list banner you might like.
After the second term of GWB, I question everything and that ruffles a few feathers from time to time.

108 posted on 04/15/2011 9:10:26 PM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: NormsRevenge

Anything obama is for,I am against. So bring on the global recession.


109 posted on 04/15/2011 9:12:17 PM PDT by sport
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To: ConjunctionJunction

If rising gas prices indicate a high probability of another recession on the horizon, that puts Obama’s statement in another light entirely. He’s scared and wants to preemptively place all the blame for election year economic misery on congress. Doubt it will work that way.


110 posted on 04/15/2011 9:43:22 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: sickoflibs
Thanks again. As far as QE goes I have been doing Federal Reserve dollar devaluation related (warning) posts since late 2008 when I got that religion.

Well, I hate to admit that I am very late to this party. But, the run up in the CPI and the real impact of the QE2 had missed me until it was presented in a way I could see it.. and I have been trying to understand just what it meant for a week.. and OMG. The Fed can't sell bonds so they are buying them and giving out Dollar bills like crazy setting off a round of hyper-inflation that the US hasn't seen since the Civil War.

This is insane, but the raw fact is that if they are allowed to, they will continue until something stops them! The Debt Ceiling is the only brake on this insanity and they are asking for the brake to be released, and someone has to say no. Not just no, but HELL NO.

111 posted on 04/15/2011 9:47:01 PM PDT by dalight
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To: DonaldC; ex-Texan
This is a repeat of: "Pass TARP today, or we will crash the global markets." & "I do not have to tell you Senator where the trillions in tax funds are going."


112 posted on 04/16/2011 1:20:08 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never 'free'.)
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To: M. Espinola

nobama hates you, hates your family, hates Free America, hates Americans, hates the Constitution and hates the Bill of Rights. nobama is a hate crime foisted upon America. nobama is the Destroyer.

Everything nobama (and his minions) does is intentional.


113 posted on 04/16/2011 5:54:23 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: NormsRevenge

Stop the money presses and bring on the depression that should have already happened and everyone rebuilding except for bozo and the democraps screwing things up.


114 posted on 04/16/2011 6:05:05 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: NormsRevenge
I've been having nightmares all week. In one I was able to speak directly to Obama and his eyes became red and he openly spoke of his evil plans to destroy America.

Last night I dreamt I was in the grocery store and, along with the other shoppers, watched prices on a digital display tick upward before we could pick the item off the shelf (and the package sizes were shrinking). People were standing there in shock, not sure what if anything they could buy. I yelled out "Thanks, Obama!"

Obviously, I am very worried about BO. That he has even 1% approval alarms and disgusts me. What will it take for people to wake up? Now he is rasing money and campaigning while our economy tanks.

115 posted on 04/16/2011 7:28:08 AM PDT by austingirl
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To: 556x45

Barry is God. Didn’t you get the memo?


116 posted on 04/16/2011 8:13:01 AM PDT by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: sickoflibs

;-)


117 posted on 04/16/2011 10:11:24 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: NormsRevenge; butterdezillion; STARWISE; Danae; Grampa Dave; BykrBayb; Red Steel; LucyT; maggief; ..
as if we dont already have a crisis?

118 posted on 04/16/2011 12:15:17 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: 556x45

Yeah, get out of office Barry and let someone who knows how to run a business.....Trump does.


119 posted on 04/16/2011 2:11:21 PM PDT by freebird5850 (Of course Obama loves his country...it's just that Sarah Palin loves mine!)
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To: NormsRevenge

The government needs to step back from trying to *fix* the economy. It’s not one of the government’s enumerated powers, for one thing.

For another, the economy fluctuates and will fix itself. SO we have a recession. OK.

Times are tough, people learn what means most to them, have their priorities set straight, life goes on. It’s not the end of the world that everyone is not capable of buying everything they want instantly.


120 posted on 04/16/2011 9:21:54 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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