One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.