Ok if we default, almost immediately the price of a lot of goods are going to change. They will still be availabe, just their prices will change drastically.
If you travel, be careful especially if by air. Airlines have to run on a profit and they may cancel many flights, refund your ticket force you to get another much more expensive ticket, etc.
Things won't hit the fan immediately, but in a few weeks the panic will start getting bad. Many banks will have lines outside them. ATM's will be out of cash.
It will be a bad winter, X-mas sales will be awful, meaning all those seasonal jobs in the winter will be gone and the country will be deep in recession, even if nominally we are still GDP positive from violent cash flow in the markets.
But next spring SHTF, expect an arab spring style situation that will turn class, race, social warfare style. Lot of riots, lot of hollowed out cores of cities, etc. Bad things, all bad things.
The one good thing I can take out of this, is all the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been doing alot of basically peacekeeping, police, and setting up democracy. When they come home they're gonna have the experience to deal with troublemakers here in the U.S. And yes, they need to come home in this case so we can have an election next year. Also I expect the Olympics to go forward.
America is on its way to a third world nation. Thank you Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Weed. Don't complain if you voted, you're partly responsible for this, we all are. Spending and consuming beyond our means.
Hopefully fat people lose some weight. Any Fat on Skinny crime will not be tolerated. Fatty Fatty Fat Fats.