Here's what supposedly "brilliant," Ben Carson, said when asked about the debt ceiling.
"Let me put it this way: if I were the president, I would not sign an increased budget. Absolutely would not do it. They would have to find a place to cut," Carson insisted in a Wednesday segment with Kai Ryssdal of the American Public Media radio program "Marketplace."
The interviewer persisted...
Ryssdal pressed: "To be clear, it's increasing the debt limit, not the budget, but I want to make sure I understand you. You'd let the United States default rather than raise the debt limit."
"No, I would provide the kind of leadership that says, 'Get on the stick guys, and stop messing around, and cut where you need to cut, because we're not raising any spending limits, period,'" Carson asserted.
Absolute idiot.
People...we will NOT avoid a default. I am telling you. NOT.
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He's a neurosurgeon, but outside of his field of expertise, he is just as susceptible to 'common sense' narratives as the rest of us.
Imagine you are an expert on X and you read an article about it. To your dismay the article contains all sorts of misconceptions, gets most things wrong and even presents some things backwards. Shaking your head you turn the page...
You then start reading an article in which you are not an expert. You read it and think "yes, this sounds reasonable, that must be correct." You take in the information at face value, and trust that the article is not a load of crap like the previous one.
The RNC has no quality control.
Anyone with enough money backing them, regardless of credibility or political experience, etc. can be a bona fide GOP Presidential candidate.
Carson is no different than the rest of the wannabes.
True.
This is straight Tea Party or Libertarian thinking. And most people believe it -- that a balanced budget is good, that the government spends too much, that our current debt level will cause us to go bankrupt. This passes for "common knowledge". It's not even questioned. Democrats are the party that is willing to continue along this same path. Republicans are positioning themselves as the party with the "courage" to stop it ... and the more far right they are, the more adamant their feelings.
MMT thinking still represents a small minority of observers. I keep listening for some influential politician (or economist) to say something that sounds like MMT philosophy. It doesn't happen very often --- except for Mike, of course.
Here’s an easy solution to the looming “debt limit” crisis. The Fed shreds all the Treasuries in its possession. Lo and behold the debt declines by about a trillion – and more important, I get a Nobel Prize for producing the solution.
And an additional bonus: we can all laugh at Kenneth Rogoff and members of Congress scratching their heads over how the problem has such an easy solution.
Im going to defend Carson a little here........... as repugnant as that feels to me;
I don't think this is as simple as him not getting the difference between a budget and a debt ceiling, I think he was simply answering Rysdalls question by going to the root cause (as he sees it) of our debt "problems" . He understands that all govt spending incurs a debt so he is saying stop increasing the debt (via spending) and we won't have to raise the ceiling. Its a naive and common position in the know nothing party. He's just thinking of it a s a zero sum game (as most all of them do) and saying we can just take from here to give to there, we just have to make "tough choices".
He is an absolute perfect reflection of the average Joe who votes republican.
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