Raising the Debt Ceiling

Tea partiers, What the fuck is wrong with you? You're about to cause the US treasury to default on its loans. Isn't that exactly the kind of shit a fiscal conservative would want to prevent?

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A personal surplus means you build your reserves, or put cash into savings, or you get a treat.  This releases money to be spent again (your boss spent it on your salary).  A government surplus means the government is taking your money but not doing anything with it - so why is it taking it?  A surplus makes sense in good times, because you build reserves that will help carry the country through the bad times, but a surplus is bad times means the government is taking in money that it could be spending (to be spent again by the recipients) or releasing in the form of tax cuts.