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?

Actually, the debt by itself is becoming a massive problem. The US will eventually see that entitlements, by themselves, will  consume all tax revenue in a matter of decades and leave nothing for the actual government.

Stimulus is nice as long as you want fake solutions that add to the deficit. You need to eventually get back the money you invested. Otherwise, you just made things a lot worse in the long run.

|plenty of economists who think our last big stimulus would have worked if it were bigger.

The same people who think we can we can spend our way out of debt? How about paying it off instead. It's really that simple.