Everything’s made up and the points don’t matter. Just like pants on a toll booth operator.

But seriously, if congress doesn’t implement ways to “save” money (aka not spend up to whatever we say the debt ceiling is) and elect to just print more money, the value of the dollar plummets even more. So then we can’t get shit done without spending more tax revenue on our loans (and republicans don’t want to recoup taxes). It’s a vicious cycle.