Gallup bravely polled Americans for their reasons as to why they do not want the debt ceiling raised, which unsurprsingly included sound economic principles like “the (black) president should reel in his spending” and just “immigrants” among their reasoning.
Don’t gag over some of the verbatim responses written by respondents to the Gallup survey (with spelling/syntax fixed by Gallup, sadly):
IT INCREASES INFLATION, AND DECREASES THE VALUE OF OUR DOLLAR
DON’T NEED ANY MORE TAXES
IT’S NOT RESOLVING THE ONGOING PROBLEM
WE HAVE ENOUGH DEBT ALREADY
OUR PRESIDENT SHOULD REEL IN HIS SPENDING. PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING
RAISING THE DEBT CEILING WOULD HURT THE ECONOMY
BAD MANAGEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT
WE CAN’T AFFORD ADDITIONAL DEBT
WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO OUR PAY OUR DEBTS BEFORE SPENDING MORE
IMMIGRANTS
from Wonkette via Gallup
These are literally the flash cards for every Fox “News” broadcast. This one is a fucking doozy:
OUR PRESIDENT SHOULD REEL IN HIS SPENDING. PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.
“People are stupid”.