Ferchi

Time to cut NSA and GCHQ (and others) down to 1/10th of their present size.So if the debt ceiling isn't raised, the President will have to prioritize payments as revenue is received.? The first priority is debt and interest on the debt.? The US will not default.? Second will be everything in blue states/districts.? The red tea party thinks the country would be great without government intervention so what if Obama stopped paying social security receipients in those states?? All he would have to do is prioritize the payments to blue state recipients.? Then everyone in places that support him gets their social security and no one in the red states/districts get anything.? The red states/districts would quickly realize just how important the US government is.? Of course they'd also be in their own little depressions with very high unemployment, no food support, no farm subsidies paid, no roads built or repaired, no home loans authorized (the 30 year loan didn't even exist until FDR created housing backstops supported by federal agencies), military bases moved out of them, no social security or medicare payments, etc.? I could go on but suffice it to say, those areas would be devistated.? At that point, Obama could not just demand an increase in the debt ceiling, a "clean" budget, but also higher taxes or whatever else he wants.