Do you understand that raising the debt ceiling is needed to keep paying for the interest on debts that we have already incurred? It doesnt mean that we blow open the check book and start buying everything we ever dreamt of owning. Sure there is some new spending in this latest budget deal, but without raising the debt ceiling, we will not be able to keep the lights on.

If we default on our debts because congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, the economic repurcussions would be massive, far reaching, and long lasting. It is just a bad idea to use the full faith and credit of the United States government as a bargaining chip. That is stupid politics proposed by people who have no business governing anything.

Yes, we have to balance our budget. In all honesty, we probably should start shrinking our debt at an appropriate rate that wont stimy too much of our economic growth. But, you do that all gradually by compromising and governing and electing people who will actually work toward it, not by electing religious zealots who cant even grasp the god damn concept of debt, deficit, and debt ceilings.

What the tea party did was irresponsible and dangerous. They endanger our future with their childish refusal to govern and staunch insistence on putting only the most ignorant corporate tools into power.

The answer is slowly working to find cheaper and better ways for government to do the things it should and spending less. It is also to bite the bullet and put a fair tax burden on the private and corporate oligarchs who run our country. A little of this, a little of that, more revenue and less spending, no more spending trillions to upset the balance of power and cause death on a massive scale in our favorite sandbox. Slowly building our budget to a sustainable balance while not abandoning the idea that the government should be a force for good in our lives, thag is the answer.

Also, the how can we pay it back party is the same one who created the economic conditions that lead to this cluster in the first place.