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No, it was ALREADY SPENT. It is money we owe people for bonds they bought from us that were due, payments of veteran's benefits and social security that we are legally obligated to pay, bills for electricity at government buildings, salaries for hours people already worked...
no, it was money we had decided to spend - the only money necessary to avoid default was the interest on the debt.
You guys really need to get that through your head. Your representatives were not fighting to cut spending, they were fighting to refuse to pay for spending they already authorized just 2 months ago.
that is incorrect. Republican leadership said from the get go that the debt ceiling would be raised; simply that it would be tied to spending cuts.
however, if this is what you want to argue, then I would be interested in how you justify DEMOCRAT opposition to the debt-ceiling rise ; more Democrats voted against it than Republicans did, and the entire Democrat caucus in the Senate did so back in 2006.