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	<title>Comments on: The Great Debt Ceiling Vote of 2013: Huh???</title>
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		<title>By: Ken Houghton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ken Houghton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#039;t have bet the House would be that smart; in fact, would have taken the opposite bet.

Does the final bill require a single budget to be passed, or that each chamber pass a budget resolution before the (arguably now unconstitutional) &quot;no pay&quot; provision kicks in?

What we will get now is nearly four more months of Paul Ryan demagoguing about how we need to &quot;CUT SPENDING&quot; when the market is saying, &quot;Please issue securities so we can buy them!&quot;

But it&#039;s nice to see that they didn&#039;t listen to their own supporters--AEI, John Taylor, even Peter Klein--who suggested default as preferable.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have bet the House would be that smart; in fact, would have taken the opposite bet.</p>
<p>Does the final bill require a single budget to be passed, or that each chamber pass a budget resolution before the (arguably now unconstitutional) &#8220;no pay&#8221; provision kicks in?</p>
<p>What we will get now is nearly four more months of Paul Ryan demagoguing about how we need to &#8220;CUT SPENDING&#8221; when the market is saying, &#8220;Please issue securities so we can buy them!&#8221;</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s nice to see that they didn&#8217;t listen to their own supporters&#8211;AEI, John Taylor, even Peter Klein&#8211;who suggested default as preferable.</p>
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		<title>By: wkj</title>
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		<dc:creator>wkj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Presidential campaign, I kept hoping we would get to see the specifics on how Romney was going to mesh all the tax and spending promises he was making into a balanced budget.  Now Ryan has promised to do roughly the same thing--can&#039;t wait.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the Presidential campaign, I kept hoping we would get to see the specifics on how Romney was going to mesh all the tax and spending promises he was making into a balanced budget.  Now Ryan has promised to do roughly the same thing&#8211;can&#8217;t wait.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim D</title>
		<link>http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/the-great-debt-ceiling-vote-of-2013-huh/#comment-475084</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the amazing C.G.P. Grey explained (here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbkoop4AYE), &quot;[s]o the debt limit fight is essentially the government version of the playground favorite: &#039;stop hitting yourself&#039; except with added terror for everyone watching.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the amazing C.G.P. Grey explained (here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbkoop4AYE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbkoop4AYE</a>), &#8220;[s]o the debt limit fight is essentially the government version of the playground favorite: &#8216;stop hitting yourself&#8217; except with added terror for everyone watching.&#8221;</p>
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