prominent market commentator jim cramer reportedly warned investors on wednesday that politicians are going to cost them money as the debt ceiling standoff continues without any resolution in sight get ready for our politicians to lose you some more money cramer said while pointing towards the earlier standoff surrounding the debt limit in 2011 they hurt you then they arent done hurting you now but unless you trade full time its very hard to get out and get back in early enough for it to make a difference which means most of us need to take the pain he stated according to a cnbc report the market expert pointed out that even though the united states ultimately got a deal in 2011 and averted the worstcase scenario the impasse was enough to make standard  poors downgrade the governments credit rating cramers comments come at a time when fitch ratings has placed the ‘aaa’ longterm foreigncurrency issuer default rating of the united states on rating watch negative the ratings agency said its action reflects increased political partisanship that is hindering reaching a resolution to raise or suspend the debt limit despite the fastapproaching x date – the day when the government is expected to run out of options to fund itself the expert also weighedin the merits of selling stocks before a potential market decline but worried that many investors may not be able to buy them back fast enough for realizing any potential gains i would hate to advise you to sell and then buy back later though because we dont know if youll be able to get back in before the allclear cramer said according to the report that said if you think our leaders are serious about making a deal then it might be worth trying to sidestep the coming decline and if were following the 2011 script thered be about a 12 decline from here until the bottom he noted wall street too has begun showing signs of souring investor sentiment the spdr sp 500 etf trust spy closed 072 lower on wednesday while the invesco qqq trust series 1 qqq shed 051 according to benzinga pro read next nvidia snowflake digital turbine gigacloud c3ai why these 5 stocks are drawing investor attention today