debt ceiling

it really boggles my mind that something like 60% of polled americans are opposed to raiseing the debt ceiling, and also that a plurality of voters view obama as to blame for this debt ceiling crisis.

so i am curious not so much as to your opinion on what is going to happen, but as to your opinion on how the american people, or people across the world will percive it? do you think that americans are really stupid enough to fall for the republicans destroying the economy to make obama look bad?

The problem with raising the debt ceiling is that it doesn't deal with the real problem -- we're broke and we keep spending like paris hilton.  And what the debt ceiling does is simply allow us to spend even more money we don't have.  As it stands we're $14 trillion in debt -- and that number is growing by the second.  there is no way that we can pay off the debt NOW, let alone afford to spend even more money.  I think the aver age family of four' share of the debt is $40+ thousand, which is impossible.  even if we took everyone's money -- all of everyone's money -- we'd still owe shittons of money. 

The only good thing to come out of this debt ceiling debate is that the republicans are demanding huge spending cuts.  I just pray they have the balls to call obama's bluff, or we'll default.