don't raise the debt ceiling, they don't go out on time. in a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. in an economic shutdown, they don't. in a government shutdown, millions of americans, not just federal workers, everybody faces real economic hardship. in an economic shutdown, falling pensions and home values and rising interest rates on things like mortgages and student loans, all those things risk putting us back into a bad recession which will affect this company and those workers and all of you. that's not my analysis. that's every economist out there is saying the same thing. we have never done it before. and the united states is the center of the world economy, so if we screw up, everybody gets