Daniel Horowitz has some strong words for Democrats and Republicans: Stop lying to the American people about possibly defaulting on our debt. He wrote that it is necessary for us to “understand the leverage, opportunities, and potential pitfalls in forging an agreement or in failing to forge such an agreement by a certain date” IF we are to “properly negotiate a path to fiscal sanity and avoid the inevitable long-term default.”
Horowitz
blamed both parties for “operating under a false assumption that there is a
June 1 debt default cliff” if an agreement is not made. We will not be
destroyed immediately, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy “needs to set the record
straight immediately.” Horowitz continued with his reasoning.
Default on debt is not the same as a
shutdown, slowdown, or rolling blackout of certain government agencies,
functions, and programs. We have an obligation to pay our creditors. We have a
strong need to pay for Social Security and Medicare. We have no obligation,
however, to fund HUD, the EPA, Department of Education, Ukraine, or illegal
aliens. There is enough money to pay the interest on the Treasuries, so there
is no threat of default. Period. And for the most part, there is money for
other critical functions for a while longer. Full stop with the default talk!
I
expect that Horowitz knows a whole lot more about how the government works than
I do. However, I know that any individual, family, company, or nation can
prosper when they have more debt than income.
I
agree with the Republicans in that we need to bring the spending under control.
Besides stopping Biden from throwing money at every potential Democrat voter,
we should decrease the size of the federal government.
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