TDS, We know you're here to show everyone how smart you are and now that you think you're a master at posting charts I would like to add, Rick's chart is a futures chart and the 4382 August high on that chart translates to 4325 on the cash SPX August high, details are important.
Democrats depend on using everyones taxes to give out to their own for votes so this is very personal for them. Undoubtably you've been influenced by democrat controlled media (as you have with Trump and your TDS) and have read recent articles of how the S&P dropped 20% in 2011 due to the debt ceiling talks, however the drop occurred after the talks had finished and is just more grandstanding for the media.
Quote "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. ... I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”--Barak Obama, March 16, 2006
if it looks right it is right