Let Boehner force the US default

Originally posted by moon1969
Which worked quite nicely for the GOP who got the sequestration cuts without any revenue increase. Why you think the Republicans have been blocking the budget conference.

The sequestration cuts amounted to a rounding error.

Originally posted by Eladar
The government must honor its contracts? Wow, tell that to the people who lose their jobs because military contracts have been canceled.

Each Congress is supposed to decide how money is spent, and their decisions are not tied to what prior Congresses have done. Congress can spend money how it chooses, but being an adult and making sound decisions doesn't ...[text shortened]... re-elected and puts money in your bank accounts. How rich is the average multiple term Senator?

"How rich is the average multiple term Senator?"

Check out just lowly Congress Critters. Most of them are multimillionaires including their cushy Congressional pensions.

Originally posted by normbenign
The sequestration cuts amounted to a rounding error.

Down to the Ryan budget total number. You have no idea what you are talking about.