Ignore the Debt Ceiling

The other day I read a suggestion that the President ignore the debt limit and honor spending and tax legislation. Doing this might end the ability of minorities in Congress to start crises in order to accomplish goals for which they lacked the votes. Although the debt ceiling isn't fictional like the fiscal cliff in reality it doesn't match what our Congress has legally allocated for spending anyway. To ignore the debt ceiling might be against the law but may be the only way to keep our economy from tanking, a bold move. As things stand now irresponsible congressional minorities have shut down the government and are holding it hostage in attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act, and next may try to use the same strategy to get their way with the government budget. What else will they go after? The way I see it, Congress isn't working anyway. In a previous post, I mentioned how futile it is to wait for the government to solve problems and how some people were finding other ways to do just that. The private sector has come to the rescue of the Headstart program in Jacksonville, FL and nationally to the aid of families whose loved ones in the military were killed in action. So I am beginning to agree that if the government remains shutdown maybe the President should just ignore the debt ceiling, or maybe Congress will stop the nonsense and get back to doing the job they were sent to do, end the shutdown and get the government working for us again.