Agreed, Vince. There was value in the fight, last time, but the pubbies caved.
And, there is great value in this fight upcoming, as well. The pubbies, though, don’t have the stones, IMO, for the fight, and Boner will cave, yet again.
For me? Shut it down. The routine cash flows are more than adequate to fund the debt service, and most of the real and necessary functions of fedgov.
If we don’t continue to fight, people will think it is fixed. If the debt is a problem at 16 trilliion, it is a problem at 17, and a problem at 19. If we stop fighting at 19, then people will doubt it is a real problem or a manufactured crisis we made up.