be doing from an economic standpoint that according to senior writer an editor for alternate joshua holland let's look beyond washington for a second because it's easy to get caught in what's going on in the beltway at least here in d.c. studios they were and even though a default may be averted with the u.s. on the brink of a credit downgrade has a damage already been done to the u.s. reputation over the world all over archie's report i have found out yeah you bet and here's why. and help us avoid before that ceiling nation default and this crisis time's running out the entire world is watching it's been a public spectacle filled with bickering grandstanding and lack of compromise i devise a debate over raising the u.s. debt ceiling creative and unprecedented climate of uncertainty over america's so-called sound economy the damage has been done and what happens now everybody really thinks the united states isn't so secure it isn't so safe even if the craziness subsides it seems to have got real close and who knows whether next month next year this won't blow up again since the underlying c