# The debt ceiling and relief for hurricane Harvey.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-debt-ceiling-and-relief-for-hurricane-harvey/795691>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-debt-ceiling-and-relief-for-hurricane-harvey/795691 "2017-09-07T00:07:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-debt-ceiling-and-relief-for-hurricane-harvey/795691/41 "2017-09-11T16:17:29Z")

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And at any rate, even if it is all the Dem’s fault, $70B, even if not a drop in the bucket, certainly does not mean they have a _lot_ to overcome. Just a tiny bit to overcome even if that. $70B is the order of magnitude of what we spent in a week in iraq, so if the dems have a lot to overcome, the GOP has hundreds of times more to overcome. Plus I have a suspicion that the $70b was spent on stuff other than getting people killed for no good reason.

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