Last Friday, President Barack Obama talked about how Congress needs to allow our
Treasury to pay America's bills on time, as well as not keep threatening to not
pay the bills unless Obamacare is repealed! Even if someone doesn't like Obamacare (which, by the way, allows us teens to stay on our parents' health insurance plan
until we're 26, so those of us who are just starting out making money and maybe
going to college don't have to go bankrupt if we get cancer, get hit by a drunk
driver, or pay for expensive health insurance and wind up not needing it, as well as it helps senior citizens afford their health care needs), it's
important America pays it's bills. For if we don't, our government will tailspin. We need Congress to agree on a budget and
raise the debt ceiling so that we can pay our bills. Even Republican, yes Republican, Speaker of the House
John Boehner says "If we fail to increase the debt limit, we
would send our economy into a tailspin”.
If we don't pay our bills and raise the debt ceiling, our whole government has a meltdown, or as mentioned previously, the economy tailspins. People aren't able to go to their jobs. Small business owners don't get their loans processed. Soldiers don't get their paychecks on time. This is not what anybody wants. Obama also pointed out that "One Republican Senator called shutting down the government over the Affordable Care Act" (a.k.a: Obamacare)" 'the dumbest idea I've ever heard' ".
As if a tail-spinning economy is not enough of a threat, let me also point out that if we fail to pay our bills on time, we make ourselves look foolish and irresponsible to the rest of the world. "What good is America if we can't even pay our bills on time?" "Who would want to do business with those irresponsible Americans?" is what they'll say. This then makes us become a deadbeat country, and the world loses respect and trust for us. Oh, this is bad. And there are already plenty of nations who hate us for "being too interfering".
Nevertheless, the U.S.A must pay its bills in a timely manner, and
if we're sick of far right-wing Republicans withholding our right to have
affordable and good-quality healthcare while simultaneously threatening to put our great nation at risk of further economic disaster, we need to protest to far-right Congress members and
threaten to take away their power positions that they're abusing, and we're not bluffing. (They don't
care about us anymore; it's sad, but they care solely about politics, countering whatever democratic Obama says). We,
the people, do have the right and ability to fire our representatives that we elected if and when they repeatably fail to do their jobs. Let's take action.
P.S: Keep in mind, the bills must be paid by September 30th, 2013. Oh wow. That's tomorrow.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/20/remarks-president-economy-kansas-city-mo
