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Trump says Puerto Rico's debt will have to be wiped out
CNBC ^ | October 3, 2017 | Leslie Shaffer, Christina Wilke, John W. Schoen and Reuters

Posted on 10/03/2017 7:30:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: rb22982

The democrats are more inclined to bail people, businesses, states out than the republicans, but Bush disproved this. In reality, there is little difference between the two parties.

I believe you will see the union and state pensions become insolvent and they will be merged, along with the IRAs, into the social security system or one very much like it.


101 posted on 10/04/2017 10:30:13 AM PDT by rey
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To: rey

Bankruptcy is not a bailout, its a simple recognition that it cannot be paid back (whether for a good or bad reason that caused it). It just makes creditors eat losses. There already is a pension fund that the fed government runs when pension funds go belly up. You usually end up with half or less of what you were going.


102 posted on 10/04/2017 11:21:45 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: BenLurkin

Either that or they become a state, enough of this territory crap. And some MAJOR reforms in their laws to stop the corruption and graft, then again we are talking about Washington DC and corruption in the same breath, so the pot calling the kettle black sort of thing.


103 posted on 10/04/2017 11:52:19 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: stars & stripes forever

It does not sound to me as if Trump intends to pay the PR debt, it sounds to me like he intends to crash the left.

It’s almost the ultimate “tough solution”, but, perhaps, better to do it now than face a worse collapse of the entire country later?


104 posted on 10/04/2017 3:31:41 PM PDT by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: sagar

Waiting...


105 posted on 10/05/2017 6:12:41 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

“Waiting...”

Oh, did not know you were waiting.

Here, savvy Trump bragging about his smart bankruptcy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHM3ZTTmU88

Are you still waiting?


106 posted on 10/05/2017 8:20:59 AM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

Like Trump said, you are living in a world of make believe if you equate that clip to “Trump has bragged about using bankruptcy MULTIPLE TIMES to have clean slate.”

He said nothing of the sort and you know it.

So yes I’m still waiting for and in context video of Trump “bragging” about using bankruptcy “multiple times” “to have a clean slate”.


107 posted on 10/06/2017 6:21:51 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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