What would happen if the US defaulted?

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@MMMark

The consequences look like what you see now: A large and growing poverty class, the shrinking of the middle class, an elite class grown fat on government largesse, speculative bubbles and busts, the shrinking of manufacturing, growing demands of “entitlement,” a police state, growing prison/industrial complex, an out-of-control military-industrial-warfare complex, and government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation, to name a few.

How? Wouldn’t default force the government to reduce spending causing a reduction in the military/prison industrial complex?