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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday of a potential economic catastrophe if Congress and the White House fail to take action to raise the federal debt ceiling. In the longer term, a default would raise the cost of borrowing into perpetuity. Future investments, including public investments, would become substantially more costly, Yellen told a crowd of local government officials during an otherwise optimistic speech to a gathering of the National Associat stanley thermos mug ion of Counties. Household payments on mo stanley cups rtgages, auto loans, and credit cards would rise, and American businesses would see credit markets deteriorate, she said. On top of that, it is unlikely that the federal government would be able to issue payments to millions of Americans, including our military families and seniors who rely on Social Security. Yellen notified Congress last month that the U.S. Treasury Department has resorted to extraordinary measures to avoid default on the nation s $31.4 trillion borrowing authority. But the extraordinary measures would likely run out mdash; and put the U.S. at risk of default mdash; sometime around early June. In a Jan. 13 letter to stanley cup House and Senate leaders, Yellen said her actions will buy time until Congress can pass legislation that will either raise or suspend the limit, but she said it s critical that Congress act in a timely manner. The debt ceiling debate has triggered a political showdown between GOP lawmaker Aqou Gov t records $1.3 trillion budget deficit again
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blogGod bless, er, Thank God, er, prai stanley thermoskannen se be to President Obama. He has the courage to put his foot down against all the government-funded proselytizing expanded by President Bush and started by President Clinton.This is one PR effort the president has handled brilliantly. Unlike his cabinet nominee vetting, which has been nothing short of disastrous, his pledge to continue faith-based funding but exclude groups that use federal dollars to proselytize, he has quelled zealots on both sides of the church-state debate. His staffers will examine use and abuse of faith-based funds on a case-by-case basis: The same case-by-case approach will govern another tricky question: whether federal funds can pay for secular portions of programs that also include proselytization, he said.That approach will likely an caneca stanley ger some on the left who were hoping for a clean break with the Bush policy. In a speech last July, Mr. Obama presented a more clear-cut view of how to draw the constitutional line. If you get a federal grant, you can t use that grant money to proselytize to stanley termosar the people you help and you can t discriminate against them or against the people you hire on the basis of their religion, he said then. This is a brilliant approach because the offenders will be cut off from massive government support, but Mr. Obama is doing so in a way that religious zealots cannot fight back against. You go, guy!On Faceboo