Bill Black: Cliff Deal a "Moderate" Betrayal

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=9452

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"The key is for us to put pressure on Obama to do the right thing. The first right thing - again, Obama's saying the right things, that he will make zero concessions. So let's hold him to that because the thing about threatening a nuclear weapon against your own economy is you can't do it. Right? If you did it, you would destroy yourself as a party."

"...the 14th Amendment actually says, we shall pay our debts. So you simply say: 'pursuant to my constitutional responsibilities, I am directing Treasury and the Federal Reserve to pay all U.S. debts.'"

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