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Old 07-07-2011, 02:42 PM
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Default Re: David Brooks will soon be an ex Conservative columnist

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Originally Posted by pjohns View Post
So you believe it would "kill" the country to decline to raise the debt ceiling (which seems silly anyway; after all, why have a "ceiling" if it will be automatically raised whenever one approaches it?); yet the country will be essentially unharmed if it attempts to live vastly beyond its means ad infinitum?

You cannot seriously believe that. Especially the latter part of that equation...
I don't believe anyone is making that argument.
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