I gotta be honest; I don't give a flying shit about the debt ceiling: what level it's at, and whether or not it's getting raised. If there's anything we learned from the bank crash/bailout, it's that the United States is a Ponzi scheme and money is a fiction.
If debt meant anything, we'd see Bank of America and Citi out of business, and Dick Fuld and tens of dozens of other Wall Street mobsters behind bars. Hell, they weren't even charged.
If debt meant anything, we see a real change agent as President, and not a Wall Street patsy fist-bumping the same thieves that destroyed our savings and jobs while cashing their own record bonuses.
If debt meant anything, we wouldn't fighting six insane criminal wars, several just begun by our new Tough-Guy-In-Chief.
If debt meant anything, we wouldn't see the printing presses running full time to flood the world with dollars to skip out on what we owe China.
No, debt only means something to the poor suckers with mortgages and credit card usury charges, and even then the little people are catching on: they're walking away from mortgages and their own debt - tired of being fucked up the ass by banker mobsters and the hand-picked Washington bagmen they've appointed.
Nope. I don't care about this nation's debt, but I know how this movie ends. After this play acting Democrats and Republicans are doing to scare the nation, they'll reach a (gasp!) last minute deal that was planned months ago between them, then they'll turn to the American people and tell them "see, see how scary and serious this nations debt is? Now we have to gut your Social Security and Medicare"
And the scare American sheep will happily comply, for compliance is what they're best at.