The Debt Ceiling is to the American Economy as S*** is to a House

     After recent news that the government shutdown has ended, I went online to see what the compromise was. I read in a Fox News article that Obama signed an agreement that the shutdown would be over and the debt ceiling would be raised considering the U.S. has no money to pay off the debt and needs money to keep the economy flowing. I don't like the fact that the debt ceiling was raised. At all. It's just going to add more debt to the too-much-to-pay-off debt we already have. Why would we raise the amount of debt that the government can get themselves into knowing that we don't have enough money (AT ALL) to pay off the debt we have right now.
     Irritated with the news, I coincidentally stumbled upon the greatest metaphor that sums up the dilemma with the debt ceiling. So basically, the article said that the American economy is like a house, and the debt ceiling is...well it's s***. So this house has been having some sewage back-up and now it is now filled with s***. The walls and vents and ever crack in the wall is filled with this stuff and the family living in the house doesn't know what to do. After much contemplation and arguing over how to solve this problem, they come down to two options; they could raise the ceiling or fix the sewage and take out the s***. The more obvious and logical answer would be to take out the s*** but in the end, the family decides they are just going to raise the ceiling. What's going to happen when the house fills up with s*** again? Are they just going to raise the ceiling again? And then raise it some more? What about all the s***? Is it just going to stay there? Is the family just going to walk around and live their life like it's not there?
       Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do. And that family (if you didn't already guess) is just like the government right now. They're just going to walk around like that mile high pile of debt isn't there. Or at least that's what it seems like they're doing right now. I just want to know what America is going to do when a few years pass and the same problem comes up again. Will we raise the roof, or will the s*** just keep coming?