{"id":2844,"date":"2011-08-30T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2019-11-14T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:03:31","slug":"the-debt-ceiling-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2844","title":{"rendered":"The debt ceiling debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-119\" style=\"margin: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2009\/12\/RoboHead-100x126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2009\/12\/RoboHead-100x126.jpg 100w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2009\/12\/RoboHead.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>By Hamza Farah&#8211;<br \/>\n<\/strong>I was so surprised Representative Michelle Bachmann vented her ideas on the debt ceiling. Mrs. Bachmann said she would not vote on raising the debt ceiling no matter how lucrative a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>In the debt ceiling negotiations, the deals the Democrats offered were very lucrative, but yet Bachmann would not budge. It seemed like Representative Bachmann would rather win a Republican primary than do the job she was sent to Washington for, the job all members of congress are sent to Washington for: compromising.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at the debt ceiling issue and do a cost benefit analysis, you quickly see the stupidity of her opinion and vote. You see that unemployment is at 9 percent, you see the dire need for compromise.<\/p>\n<p>What you see is the strain that the American people are going through, and I do not mean locally but nationally. You realize that the American people cannot handle higher interest rates on their mortgages, credit cards and car loans.<\/p>\n<p>But representative Bachmann and the Tea-Party caucus refused to see the dire need for compromise; they refused to help our nation. Instead of realizing all of this, Mrs. Bachmann and the Tea-Party caucus chose to refuse raising taxes for corporations. Corporations that do not need the help they receive.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like representative Bachmann just doesn\u2019t care about the American people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hamza Farah&#8211; I was so surprised Representative Michelle Bachmann vented her ideas on the debt ceiling. Mrs. Bachmann said she would not vote on raising the debt ceiling no matter how lucrative a compromise. In the debt ceiling negotiations, the deals the Democrats offered were very lucrative, but yet Bachmann would not budge. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46913],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10854,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}