Reply #79: quote continues: "I think ,depending on how you phrase the question, if you say, ... [View All]

... to the American people, is it a good idea, for the United States, not to pay its bills, and potentially create another recession, they could throw millions of more people out of work, I feel pretty confident I can get a majority on my side on that one".

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7372967n

Worth listening to the end of his answer, because the clip in the OP was cut off by 'CNSNews' who are, of course, a far right wing propaganda service in the Brent Bozell stable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercast_News_Service

It doesn't strike me as "don't concern yourself"; it strikes me as "this is an artificial crisis, that doesn't make much sense to people who haven't looked into the details of what playing with default means, and it's been easy to paint it as 'raising the debt limit is irresponsible'; but if we point out the effects of default, I'm confident most people will understand and agree we shouldn't default".

But CNSNews don't want to give that impression.