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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
It's also not about reducing government spending.

The equivalent of not raising the debt ceiling is ordering a bunch of pizzas, then refusing to pay the delivery guy when the pizzas arrive.
gpt
Ordering a bunch of pizza, telling the delivery guy to just set it on the table while you go get your wallet, your peeps eat the pizza (and you eat a slice or eight while you’re “looking” for your wallet), and then you tell the guy “actually, I’m not going to pay for this pizza.”