Because as the good Senator said himself, if we don’t raise the debt ceiling it’s only the stupid things that would not get paid.
[I]t’s the non-essentials that wouldn’t be paid, it’s the $250-300 billion a year in stupid things we do that we wouldn’t pay, it’s the programs that aren’t an absolute necessity that wouldn’t get funded, the things that would be a necessity would get funded.”
If the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, the EPA, the FDA, the Forest Service (you know, the folks who fight forest fires of which there have been an unprecedented number recently), FEMA, the USDA, the SEC, people who track down lost nukes, the CDC (the folks who track epidemics and respond to disease outbreaks), the NIH, and so many others government expenditures that would be cut off (school lunch program, the National Weather Service, aid for the victims of Superstorm Sandy, and so on and so forth), are stupid things on which to spend the government’s money, then certainly Senator Coburn’s salary fits into that category, too. Don’t you agree?
