Dec

Another Increase on the Debt Limit

Didn’t the democrats just increase the national debt limit a few months ago? I guess they miscalculated they’re reckless spending, because they’re at it again.

Democrats plan to allow the government’s debt to swell by nearly $2 trillion as part of a bill next week to pay for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The amount pretty much equals the total of a year-end spending spree by lawmakers and is big enough to ensure that Congress doesn’t have to vote again on going further into debt until after the 2010 elections.The move has anxious moderate Democrats maneuvering to win new deficit-cutting tools as the price for their votes, igniting battles between the House and the Senate and with powerful interest groups on both the right and the left.

The record increase in the so-called debt limit – the legal cap on the amount of money the government can borrow – is likely to be in the neighborhood of $1.8 trillion to $1.9 trillion, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Friday.

That eye-popping figure is making Democrats woozy but is what is needed to make sure they don’t have to vote again before next year’s midterm elections. The government’s total debt has nearly doubled in the past seven years and is expected to exceed the current ceiling of $12.1 trillion before Jan. 1.

Democratic leaders say they will try to raise the ceiling to nearly $14 trillion as part of a $626 billion bill next week to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and other military programs in 2010. The bill doesn’t include the additional $30 billion President Obama is expected to seek early next year to pay for his 30,000-troop buildup in Afghanistan but it might carry an added $50 billion to pay for a six-month extension of unemployment benefits and health care insurance subsidies for the long-term jobless. …

Just a few short months after they raised the debt ceiling to $12 TRILLION, they need to bump it up again to $14 TRILLION. Spending less never crossed their minds. And they’re hoping THIS debt incrase will tide them over until the next election, which, if they win, they will no doubt turn around and hike the debt limit even more. Yet we’re supposed to trust the numbers they give us on health care reform? We’re supposed to think their bills are really deficit neutral. Do they think we’re all complete idiots?

To anyone who isn’t a political appointee or crony of these stooges, what has all of this debt done for you? Do you have anything to show for it?

I didn’t think so.

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