16 Ways Default Will Totally Screw Americans
By Dana Liebelson - Oct. 10, 2013
1. Social Security payments will be delayed, possibly cut. According to President Obama, in the event of a default the US government will have no choice but to delay Social Security checks. The government owes $12 billion in Social Security payments on October 23 and an additional $25 billion on November 1. At some point between October 22 and November 1, the BPC predicts that the US government will have exhausted its borrowing power and will either have to start severely delaying its bills or sort through the millions of different payments it makes each month—on everything from national parks to the FBI—to figure out which ones to stop paying. That's when Social Security could see sustained cuts.
2. Federal employees will be screwed…even more. Furloughed federal employees haven't been paid since the government shutdown began on October 1. Congress is unlikely to end the shutdown without raising the debt limit, meaning furloughed staffers would be unlikely to receive paychecks anytime soon.
3. Pay and benefits for military service members and veterans will be delayed, possibly cut. The US government owes $12 billion in pay to active and retired military service members on November 1. Those payments will be delayed if the government runs out of money before then, and potentially cut, depending on which bills the US decides to pay.
4. Medicare and Medicaid checks will be delayed, possibly cut. The US government owes $2 billion in Medicaid payments on October 30 and $18 billion in Medicare payments on November 1. Same deal: If the government runs out of cash before then, payments will be delayed, or put on the chopping block with everything else.
Kept within 4 paragraphs to match DU rules. Much more at the link, showing it will be impossible to recover from default, yet the GOP thinks this is a great idea. They want a civil war, and this is how they want to get one, but many won't survive this. It is a manufactured crisis, there is not country in the world that wants this.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/16-ways-not-raising-debt-ceiling-will-screw-americans
With thanks to Mira who posted the Mother Jones link in GD. You can go to enter that discussion, I added more information:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023834604
I'm not posting to frighten DUers at the BOG, but as information to prepare yourselves for the worst, if it happens. Keep letting your family, friends and neighbors know this is a manufactured crisis by the GOP, and not, as media is still telling them, the fault of Obama, the Democrats or the American people.
They have been calling for a civil war for a long time now. This is their coup coming to pass if we can't stop it happening.
I will add more details in posts below.
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Less than ten days away, the scenario described here is what the GOP wants:
Debt Ceiling: 'Chaotic' choices on 100 million payments
By Jeanne Sahadi - January 7, 2013
If Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling soon, the Treasury Department will be forced to make drastic, no-win decisions on how to honor tens of millions of legally owed payments every month...
Prioritizing interest payments means Treasury must choose from more than 100 million monthly payments and would not be able to pay 40% of the dollars owed...
Much more at link:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/07/news/economy/debt-ceiling/index.html
Those expecting veteran benefits will lose those in November through shutdown or with default:
5 million will lose veterans' benefits next month if shutdown stretches to November
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=616482
Rand Paul says default can be 'framed as a reasonable idea' and Tom Coburn wants to default to face a 'managed catastrophe.'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3820816
To which I said:
A 'managed catastrophe' by these gangsters? We're officially in hell!
Why the people of the USA aren't in the offices of these gangsters protesting right now, proves the power of media.
They will blame Obama, the poor, the disabled, the elderly and any 'others,' instead of the GOP.
The long term chaos will benefit the GOP in 2014. as people forced to move, translates into them being unable to vote.
On the bright side, at that point, they will all be able to qualify for government assistance living where and how they do not want.
But anyone who has paid much attention to politics since the Tea Party gained power in 2010, knows that FOAD is their answer to those who need assistance.
All of this coming from a man-made disaster that does not have to happen.
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10023822515
Just more information, of what the Treasury is trying to figure out in the face of this insanity. They've been doing this all year while the GOP has played this game, causing the pain, even after the Sequester. The Teabaggers are hell bent on their dystopia.
They want to do a Shock and Awe, and it will be unexpected to many. The media has kept this out of the public eye, not putting blame where it belongs for this Koch brothers disaster now staring so many of us in the face.
I posted some positive solutions, not sure if it's too late. The USA will never again entertain the progressive social issues we thought important as it is divided up into fiefdoms.
Here is another, if you are interested in reading this:
Nearing the Eve of Destruction, will this be Obama's Winning Hand?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110218172
over their oaths of office and their country: their pathology is manifest. 
They are the true meaning of the ugly American.
I have to believe that some way, somehow, things will get better. That we can move back from the brink. The alternative is beyond comprehension~
freshwest
