Déjà vu: Treasury Taps Retirement Funds to Avoid Breaching US Debt Limit

Good.

Then don't appropriate any money to restore them.

Well they have to rob Peter to pay Paul. They can't borrow to pay the interest, so it has to come from somewhere.

The problem is that they consciously make the decision to make the cuts as visible, obvious, and painful to the American people as possible. They should be using this "crisis" every time to desperately hunt for inefficiencies and bloat.

You cannot tell me that every single individual office and department in the federal government cannot find 10% of their budgets to cut without having any affect on actual output.

Funny how they never touch congress' retirement funds

lets cut government spending, cut ALL foriegn aid, and tax those not paying taxes.

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You cannot tell me that every single individual office and department in the federal government cannot find 10% of their budgets to cut without having any affect on actual output.

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Oh they can but wont, if they dont spend every dime they are afraid their budget will get cut the following year. When I was in the Air Force I was at a training base in CA. Being the training base in the latest time zone we were tasked with spending all the left over money each year. We always got new desks, chairs, couches, tvs, and anything else we wanted at the end of the year. My mom does the same thing at Redstone, spends every September and October booking out travel and training for her co-workers just to spend millions.