“The validity of the public debt of the United States, (click title to entry - thank you) authorized by law, including debts incurred for payments of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,” the critical sentence says, “shall not be questioned.”
Granted there is an ill prepared Supreme Court to uphold this precedent, but, the late President Lincoln obviously saw the potential of the USA being under siege from within again. He was more than correct. The extremists that were elected in 2010 was an obvious take over by ideologues not ready or able to govern. They were elected by monies of Plutocratic Republicans empowered by a corrupted Supreme Court full of hubris and self-righteousness.
Never before has the USA defaulted on bills already made in goof faith to those that see themselves as beneficiaries of our endeavors. To deny the need for timely bill that is well prepared if it is not to be a simple document to raise the debt ceiling at this very, very, very late hour is a more than treasonous act against the sovereignty of the USA.
There is evidence to that effect. It isn't just 'the event' of the debt and the debt ceiling, it goes beyond that. l. The attack on the Affordable Health Care Act 'in majority' is in one district Appeal's Court which focuses the opposition under a microscope of where radical changes are made by extremist conservatives. I don't care if it is politics, it is extremism at its worse manifesting in a democracy with high esteem for difference.
There is also this and it cannot be ignored for what it is:
Thousands of federal aviation workers furloughed (click here)
(AFP) – 48 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — Millions of dollars in US airport taxes went uncollected Sunday while thousands of federal workers were out of work for a second day, following Congress' failure last week to pass a bill keeping the country's aviation authority running.
Some 4,000 workers with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were told to stay home beginning Saturday, after congressional authorization for several FAA programs expired at 12:01 a.m. that day.
As a result, FAA employees in 35 states, as well as in Puerto Rico and Washington, DC are furloughed without pay, US officials said.
Observers said the disabled federal agency foreshadows what could happen around Washington and across the country if Congress fails to reach a deal in its separate negotiations with the White House over a debt ceiling, as it tries to avert a catastrophic federal default before an August 2 deadline....
This lack of willingness to allow unions to exist when the federal laws protect these workers is a direct assault on our democracy and our freedoms. Not only that, but, it is a direct assault on a fragile economy where workers are keeping their homes from paycheck to paycheck. This is more than inexcusable, it is illegal and treasonous to say the least. Any and I do mean any action that 'disables' this democracy by weakening its citizens is an act of treason.
When the wide spread acts by extremists of the Republican Party that have occupied the House and Senate for the sole purpose of obstruction of the will of the people has to be stated for what it is. Politicking for the purpose of disabling the USA is as drastic as a civil war of which one Tea Party candidate, namely Rick Perry, would not mind have happen as he has stated himself. In the USA South, the Civil War never sincerely ended, just postponed.
The Lincoln Precedent is a relevant today as it was then. It is all too clear.
