Gary Peters actually said...

The triple-A credit of the United States is the bedrock of the global financial system.

This is all games that they play, and they go back and forth, and it is just another example of the dysfunction that exists in the U.S. Cong...

If you tell them that they have paid into a system for their entire life... that is not something that is going to be palatable to nearly ev...

You cannot cut enough to deal with it, and you cannot grow yourself out of it. You have to do all three.