http://youtu.be/zqTXgNM8Kcs
It's all just political drama. Staying firm to the debt limit now when they've increased it at least 30 or 40 times in the past 50 years will turn things around? OK!
Watch this for the big picture of things and then you can LOL at the pettiness of this "debt ceiling debate":
http://youtu.be/Xbp6umQT58A
Then after you're done laughing I guess you can cry a bit.