Is the Government Really Settling Things? (Blog Stage 3)

            I researched about how the government is going to settle things with it shutting down and all due to disagreement of Obamacare.  President Obama wanted everyone to have this health care but others seemed to disagree with him due to people not possibly being able to afford it, or just being a little outrageous to force upon people.

          The argument seems to be about President Obama wanting to raise the debt ceiling but Congress won’t allow it unless they authorize him to do so.  The Article is called Our Outlaw President?,which was posted on September 30 of this year, basically argues about raising the debt.  This article .  If Congress won’t allow it to increase, then Obama might have to break a law.  The question is, which law would he have to break to be able to make it happen?

            Well, from what I can see is that if the president is willing to do something so extreme, what would be the catch?  Will it make us suffer more or will it actually help a little bit?  The article states, “In 2011, when Congress last flirted with not raising the debt ceiling, lawyers disagreed.”  The reason being was that some didn’t want to violate budget laws but others wanted him to honor budget legislation.  Both options weren’t good, but ignoring the debt ceiling was least bad from legal standpoints from lawyers.

            The author seems to agree with the lawyers decisions, but the consequences are so high that the president and courts shouldn’t ignore it.  So if the debt wouldn't increase, Obama should ignore it, and honor spending and tax legislation.  If we would’ve cut spending, we would have been hundreds of billions of dollars behind per year to come.  That’s money that we could have used for important/emergency needs, which would have been really bad to lose.

            Logically this would be terrible to raise debts by breaking some laws, but if the ideas aren’t getting the right result from the government, then evidently some things need to be done to get the right answer even if they aren’t on legal terms.

            Anyways, I believe that President Obama shouldn’t be worried about raising any debt ceiling because I believe the main focus here is basically getting things together and organizing certain programs with assignments to try and make the community better.  The government needs to be on the same page, concerning same results of events that are happening, or will happen in the future.

            There shouldn’t be too much conflict or disagreements to make the government to just completely shut down for several days.  That seems like a “give up” action to me.  Instead of trying to resolve with reasonable ideas of good conclusions, they just decide to shut down.  There could be good things to when they come back on.  It can be like starting new, and hopefully being more rational in their decisions this time.