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Repeating all of our posts still does not mean what you said contradicted me. All you said is that if we miss a payment, interest rates go up. It has nothing to do with what I said.
Money is spent during appropriations. Appropriations create legal obligations. This is akin to the agreement created between you and your credit card company when you buy something or you and your mortgage company when you buy a house. In both cases, you have made a legally binding agreement to pay a certain amount at a later date.
Sorry, I'll explain this a little more in detail because it is a little tricky.
Congress passes a budget. That budget appropriates money for different things. For example, the budget may appropriate money for a new aircraft carrier.
Now you can't just go to Walmart and buy a new carrier. Instead the government signs contracts with a number of different contractors. They government agrees to pay them a certain amount at certain times in exchange for certain deliverables. Then the contractors get to work and start building the carrier.
The government is legally obligated to make those payments as soon as the contract is signed. So the more accurate analogy is that passing a budget is like buying a house, raising the debt ceiling is like paying the mortgage, and passing next years budget is like buying a new house.
If you're concerned about debt and government spending (as we all should be), then the time to be concerned about it is when we pass the next budget. Not paying for things we've already bought will only make them MORE expensive. The fastest way to make the debt explode is to default by not raising the debt ceiling.