Public strongly opposes debt ceiling increase

[CARLHAYDEN]

Public strongly opposes debt ceiling increase: Reuters/Ipsos

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. public overwhelmingly opposes raising the country's debt limit

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B38620110112

[opebo]

But it is possible they would oppose what would happen otherwise even more (large scale human die offs, breakdown of law and order, complete economic collapse, or alternatively, a somewhat higher top tax rate).

[Franzl]

It's good we don't do national referenda.

[Person Man]

But it is possible they would oppose what would happen otherwise even more (large scale human die offs, breakdown of law and order, complete economic collapse, or alternatively, a somewhat higher top tax rate).

2011 = 1347?

[You kip if you want to...]

Fine, let the world economy take another spiral into decline. 310 million Americans clearly know enough about economics to make a decision like this.

[Frink]

Raising the debt ceiling would only allow for the continuance big gubernment expansion into our personal lives. The worlds reserve currency defaulting on its credit obligations is a small price to pay for giving the ghost of Jack Murtha the metaphorical middle finger.

[Beet]

Something doesn't add up...

"Only 24 percent say the country can afford to cut back on education spending, a likely Republican target, and 21 percent support cuts to law enforcement.

With the Pentagon fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 51 percent supported cutbacks to military spending.

Less than half, 45 percent, support an expected Republican effort to pare environmental enforcement.

Some 53 percent support cutting the budgets of financial regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, in spite of the widespread consensus that a lax regulatory atmosphere contributed to the devastating financial crisis of 2007-2009.

And 47 percent support cutbacks to national parks, which were shuttered for several weeks during the budget battles of 1995 and 1996.

Expensive benefit programs that account for nearly half of all federal spending enjoy widespread support, the poll found. Only 20 percent supported paring Social Security retirement benefits while a mere 23 supported cutbacks to the Medicare health-insurance program.

Some 73 percent support scaling back foreign aid and 65 percent support cutting back on tax collection."

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Something doesn't add up...