Brian Higgins actually said...

Those surpluses were taken by the next administration, a Republican administration, to provide tax cuts to the very, very wealthy on the fau...

They contributed to the debt and therefore have a moral responsibility to raise the debt ceiling to help the American economy.

A default on American debt would not only destroy the American economy with high recession, lost household savings, lost retirement savings,...

As has been said here by many, the best way to grow an economy is to invest in it.