Duncan explains vote to avoid a default

Perhaps, prodded by the Oconee Republican chairman, the district U-S representative to congress explained his vote last month to raise the debt limit and avoid a financial default.  Jeff Duncan is a conservative, but to some conservatives the bi-partisan agreement to avoid default amounted to a cave-in the quest to tamp down the country’s rising debt.  But “It was a negotiation”, Duncan told his Walhalla audience.  And he expressed concern what might have happened if the country was forced into a situation in which the country could not make its obligations, such as Social Security and Medicare.