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To: Republican Wildcat
"The US government can't go bankrupt because we can print our own money."

The Weimar Republic said that too.

2 posted on 05/21/2024 7:53:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

3 posted on 05/21/2024 7:55:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“...But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”...”

Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” January 1920


6 posted on 05/21/2024 8:06:28 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Technically, Weimar never went bankrupt, but a wheelbarrow full of Deutschmark was not accepted in payment of Versailles reparations or a kilo of Swiss chocolate.


18 posted on 05/22/2024 4:41:15 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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