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We may not be able to address our current debt ceiling woes, but we can at least put them to a good beat.

Visit the links below for more Reason coverage on the debt, deficit and government spending:

Five Facts About the Debthttp://reason.com/archives/2011/07/25/five-facts-about-the-debt

The Facts About the Debt Ceilinghttp://reason.com/archives/2011/07/18/the-facts-about-the-debt-ceili

Reason.com Topics: Government Spending http://reason.com/topics/goverment-spending

"Raise the Debt Ceiling" is the third of a series of collaborations between Remy and Reason.tv. To watch Remy's other videos, go to http:youtube.com/goremy

Music by Remy. Video shot and produced by Meredith Bragg.

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LYRICS:

Raise da debt ceiling!Raise da debt ceiling!Raise da debt ceiling!Raise da debt ceiling!

14 trillion in debtbut yo we ain't got no qualmsdroppin $100 billsand million dollar bombs

spending money we don't havethat's the name of the gamethey call me cumulo nimbusbecause you KNOW I make it rain

bail out all kind of carsgot all kind of whipsladies ask me how I get emI tell em STIMULUS

Social Security surplus?Oh, guess what? it's goneI got my hands on everythinglike Dominique Strauss Kahn

ain't got no Medicare trust fundson, that's just absurdspending every single penny thatwe see, son, have you heard?

ain't got no moral objectionsain't got kind of complaintsain't got no quantitativestatutory budget restraints

so...[CHORUS]

Yo, we up in the Fedand we living in styleSpending lots of moneywhile we sipping crystal

still making it rainand yeah it be so pleasingwait, not making it rain--we be "Quantitative Easing!"

QE1, QE2QE4, QE3Dropping IOU'sin every fund that I see

printing the cashinflating the moniescallin up China"a-yo we straight out of 20's!"

in the clubwe be louding outwhile to the market, yeahwe be crowding out

on the beach getting tanand sipping Coronawe got a monetary plan--and it involves a lot of toner...

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So if you look at the chartand examine the trendwe borrow 40 cents of everysingle dollar we spend

and non-discretionary spendingincreases every daydo you have a comment for Committee?I MAKE IT RAIN

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speakerwould you beam me up?A Congressperson cutting spending?Couldn't dream me up

We're gonna defaultif we follow this road!I should have thought of this14 trillion dollars ago!

I'm the king of the linksI'm a menace at tennisI'm sticking spinnaz on my rimspicking winnaz in business

if you're looking for some cashit's about to get heavyI got some big ol' piles of moneyand guess what--they shovel ready

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