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?

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>clouded by politics
That's the problem, both parties benefit from inflated government spending so neither are willing to quantify the benefits of providing all these services to ignorant poor people, for instance education spending has continued to increase even though grades haven't improved since the 70s and there is little correlation between spending and grades between states. If I were tasked with increasing the nations's IQ I wouldn't increase education funding, I'd only let university graduates, asians and whites immigrate to the country and fire teachers if any of their students fail literacy or numeracy tests at the end of the year.