What does that title mean up there?
I guess it's my way to put the Debt Ceiling question in clear relief. Now what will happen if we don't pass a debt ceiling increase? A Chain reaction collapse of many assets and asset holders similar to but greater than the ones that afflicted the banks in the aftermath of the 2008 crash.
Only, in this case, the government would not be able to afford to intervene. Imagine where the economy today would be without those interventions. That's how you sell people on the Economic consequences. On the other side, if you want to sell them on the the consequences on the fiscal and governmental side, the best way to put it is that it's like a government shutdown, only far, far worse.
Even if all the Social Security Payments and everything else like that is saved, there will still be, as that article indicates, severe shortfalls on everything else our government is doing. Now conservatives out there that you might interact with might not like government, but it would be good to remind them that the government interactions in their lives are not so easily pulled out by their roots without bad effects to them.
People have to be made aware of just how much the GOP is playing with fire here, and just how much will get burned when those pyros on the Right are done torching big government.
If we get a debt limit passed, this could be a valuable teaching moment here, a great opportunity to convince people that the Republicans are more or less insane on policy. let's not waste it. Let's show just how far the Republicans have taken this country over the edge, and give people some incentive to back some sane government.