The debts have been incurred for a reason or reasonsthat stem from the design of a bizarre system of subsidy, and decision making that ignores markets.
We cannot link the successful passage of further spending reductions through that process to raising the debt ceiling again, precisely for the reasonthat you just enumerated -- the reasons you just enumerated.
Maybe the Visegrad countries, for one reason or another, are experiencing a decline in fertility forreasonsthat are entirely their own and that have nothing whatsoever to do with their political or economic systems.
The reason -- one of the important reasonsthat immigration reform is such a legislative priority for both sides is because of the public support that the President has marshaled on this issue.