Friday, June 3, 2011

Charles Krauthammer: Our salutary debt-ceiling scare

Washington Post  "Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warns that failure to raise the limit would be disastrous. In that he is correct. But he is disingenuous when he suggests that we must raise the ceiling by Aug. 2 or the sky falls."
"There is no drop-dead date. There is no overnight default. Debt service amounts to about 6 percent of the federal budget and only about 10 percent of federal revenue. This means that for every $1 of interest payments, there is roughly $9 of revenue the government spends elsewhere."


http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/chuckasay

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