03-14-2017, 04:00 PM
(03-14-2017, 03:45 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-14-2017, 03:14 PM)Galen Wrote:(03-14-2017, 03:12 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: I dunno, we have run into debt ceilings before. Let's hold off and see what actually happens, first.
I am only presenting a couple of possible scenarios. It just that Trump doesn't play the game by the usual rules.
If Stockman has it right, there are a whole bunch of people who want to take the car off the cliff, and are keeping the existence of the cliff quiet until it is too late to hit the breaks. Not the usual pattern.
Exactly my point. Nothing about this election or results has followed the usual pattern and it is important to remember that the Republican party base is at odds with its elites. That is how they got Trump in the first place. Stockman used to call Boehner the fastest fold in Washington and that was why he is gone. If Hillary had won then I would have expected Ryan to follow the same pattern his predecessor did. Are the fiscal conservatives in the mood to fold after eight years of Obozo? I suspect not. Is Trump OK with their position? That remains to be seen.
Ironically by keeping quiet about this the permanent bureaucracy may have given Trump the perfect chance to put huge swaths of government employees on the bench until the figure out who is boss.
As always, time will tell.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises