{"id":83237,"date":"2025-06-13T05:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=83237"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:28:15","slug":"discuss-should-we-eliminate-the-debt-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2025\/06\/discuss-should-we-eliminate-the-debt-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"DISCUSS:  Should We Eliminate the Debt Limit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"pt-0 p-4\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ptr\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2023\/03\/cranach-seal.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65538\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2023\/03\/cranach-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"276\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"ptr__pull-down\">Do you agree?<\/div>\n<div class=\"ptr__children\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col space-y-2 mt-2\">\n<div class=\"thread\">\n<div id=\"thread\" class=\"\" data-virtuoso-scroller=\"true\" data-testid=\"virtuoso\">\n<div data-viewport-type=\"window\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-test-id=\"virtuoso-item-list\">\n<div data-index=\"0\" data-known-size=\"996\" data-item-index=\"0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col space-y-4\">\n<div tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"focusable relative space-y-4\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Donald J. Trump, I am very pleased to announce that, after all of these years, I agree with Senator Elizabeth Warren on SOMETHING. The Debt Limit should be entirely scrapped to prevent an Economic catastrophe. It is too devastating to be put in the hands of political people that may want to use it despite the horrendous effect it could have on our Country and, indirectly, even the World. As to Senator Warren\u2019s second statement on the $4 Trillion Dollars, I like that also, but it would have to be done over a period of time, as short as possible. 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