Believing that not raising the debt ceiling equals default means that you must believe that every penny the government is now spending is absolutely necessary...that not one penny can be cut. The 14th Amendment spells out that the legally incurred debt of the United States cannot be questioned...in other words, it is a debt and must be paid. Defaulting on debt, therefore is the last resort...after all other measures have been exhausted. In this current "crisis," however, no other measures are being even considered or negotiated by our imperial dictator.
Before we default on debt, we should...must...cut other spending to the point where we can service our current debt. We can reduce or eliminate discretionary spending. We could eliminate departments of government that are inefficient, out-dated, corrupt, or unconstitutional...which is most of them. We can stop maintaining national parks...national public radio. We can pull out of the United Nations and eliminate that obligation. We can eliminate federal funding for food stamps, welfare, and socialized medicine. We can do very many other things that do not affect the rightful and constitutional operation of what is meant to be a very limited Federal government. But we cannot constitutionally default on our debt.
If the President of the United States willfully defaults on our legal debt, he should be immediately removed from office and possibly imprisoned for breaking federal law. If our Congress allows him to default, the States, from whom the Federal government gets it's power, must rise up and recall and replace them with those who will live up to the oath of defending the Constitution.
REPEAL THE 17th AMENDMENT!
ENFORCE THE 10th AMENDMENT!
