Posted on 05/16/2011 8:11:15 AM PDT by SanFranDan
The Obama administration will begin to tap federal retiree programs to help fund operations after the government loses its ability Monday to borrow more money from the public, adding urgency to efforts in Washington to fashion a compromise over the debt.
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has warned for months that the government would soon hit the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling — a legal limit on how much it can borrow. With the government poised to reach that limit Monday, Geithner is undertaking special measures in an effort to postpone the day when he will no longer have enough funds to pay all of the government’s bills.
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With private enterprise, this is a sure sign that the end is nigh.
Your 401K is next.
Freaking blackmail!
Next he will confiscate all 401k from you, the public. Wave goodbye to your pensions and he will make sure that you could only draw a small amount each month representing starvation. Think not? Who has control of all institutions (banks) now.
How about all those federal employees that voted for the kenyan. Here comes hope and change.
Hope your retirement doesn’t end being a bunch of loose change.
LOL, this isn’t going to end well. Why on earth should anyone expect the $ to be paid back? Even if it is paid back it will be w/ borrowed money. You can only live so long on revolving credit cards.
This is just a temporary procedural move, and contrary to what the liberal media wants people to think, it’s not the first time this has happened; it has happened many times before in fact.
Yes, think not.....political suicide; and being in power is uber important to these people, so NFW.
The government was legally obligated to pay back the Social Security fund as well.
And if you believe that "legal requirements" are going to determine anthing...
Sort of like income taxes, eh, Tim?
The Social Security lock box was flushed down the democrat-rino crapper, now goes the 401, next the IRA’s.
Well, they’ve been “tapping” Social Security for 75 years.
And just about every government, at every level—municipal, county, state, and federal, has been tapping pensions, or underfunding them.
But now I suppose Boehner will cave when they all scream that it’s his fault.
Hey, Boehner, how about just pointing out that they’ve been doing this for decades, and that the problem is that Democrats and their Republican accomplices keep spending money that they don’t have?
How long before the butt-licking media start singing praises of Obama for his successful struggle to hold the country and the economy together?We will be told how he bravely faced down a concentrated attack by mean-spirited, racist conservatives determined to cause the US to default on our debt and destroy the economy and so they can blame it on HIM.
poetic Justice! the first thing the usurper has done that I approve of. It really is our money, money the fed stole from us to bribe their flunkies with.
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They should stop pretending and just go back to ration books.
“They already robbed federal retirees because they haven’t had a COLA for two years”
I hear this argument thrown out there by the Looters all the time. Please answer me this. Why should We The People in the Private Sector increase your Pay,Salary,Retirement for the amount of Wealth The GOVERNMENT STOLE BY DEVALUING MY PROPERTY (money)??? You are correct in your assertion that the Fed’s Robbed the Federal Retirees, they ROBBED EVERYBODY, but that doesn’t give you the right to ROB THE TAXPAYERS because you were ROBBED.
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