Barack Obama: "We're Not Some Banana Republic, This Is Not A Deadbeat Nation"

So if the US doesn't want to be a deadbeat nation, it should go further into debt--as it has for decades?  OK, got it.

Chiquita republic here we come...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-20/barack-obama-were-not-some-banana-republic-not-deadbeat-nation

Yet,

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. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

- From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006