Rep Price Does Not Remember His Oath

Price Proposes Default: No Media Backlash
by Max Johnson

Once again a leader in the Corporate Party is suggesting default by only paying some of our debts in August and NPR's Melissa Block on July 7th allowed him to make that suggestion without calling him on it. Budget Committee member Representative Tom Price claimed that "Americans are not interested in a tax increase" without any proof or justification for the statement. NPR's Block did not follow up asking for proof. Where is the liberal media when you need it? Then he came up with a sweeping statement about defaulting on our bills, and Block did not question his patriotism or his commitment to his oath of office.

"And then, I think the president hurts himself when he says, look, if this doesn't happen, then students won't be able to get loans, Social Security checks won't go out, we won't be able to pay the troops, when he knows that if we were to prioritize appropriately and decrease the amount of spending, for example, in the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce, that we could continue to pay the interest on a debt, which is a relatively simple thing to do at 8 to 10 percent of the amount of money that's coming in still, and pay the troops and pay the Social Security checks." said Rep. Price on NPR.

There is no rational person who does not see that we will not have enough money to pay all of our bills. We have obligations that we cannot cover, because the Congress for the last 10 years has fallen down on controlling spending. But Rep. Price is suggesting that we just not pay the bills for two Departments of the federal government. Does that mean that those employees do not get their paychecks? Or some small business that was doing business with these two Departments will not get reimbursed? It is a violation of their oath of office that Price would suggest defaulting on obligations of the United States. Block should have beat him up over this answer. Not that it would matter. She did try to engage him on corporate jet tax loopholes, and Price blew off the question refusing to answer.

Any discussion of not paying some of our bills or not raising the debt ceiling is a violation of the oath to protect and defend the constitution. The media should jump all over these guys, and if NPR were in fact liberal they would have slammed this Representative for violating his oath of office.