US Government to go bankrupt next week (breaching $8.2 trillion debt ceiling)

The Debt Clock ^

[Capitalism2003]

Rev up those printing presses Dubya!

[peyton randolph]

We're doomed. Maybe not. Care to estimate the value of U.S. real and personal property holdings?

[Skylab]

Your life is hell, isn't it?

[Kidan]

So, if the government goes bankrupt, can we finally get rid of those unconstituional alphabets?

I mean, let's kill the IRS, the DOE, DOI, EPA, oh..there's just so many!

And to think, all the government worker crybabies would have to get real jobs!

[meanie monster]

Crickey!!!!!!

[Cagey]

At least we have our health.

[milemark]

Paulie's coming to break yer kneecaps.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Ahhhhhhhh..."The Sky is Falling!"

It has to be Monday.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Skip the first ten chapters and go right to eleven.

[ARCADIA]

$8,195,348,677,994.89.....do you take Visa/Mastercard?

[omega4179]

each citizen's share of this debt is $27,470.99

easily could have been avoided by reducing HANDOUTS.

[sergeantdave]

Stock up on beans and bourbon today before the lines get long tomorrow.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Wow! Sooner or later that adds up to real money!

[ARCADIA]

easily could have been avoided by reducing HANDOUTS.

Or, by boosting domestic industrial production and growing the tax base.

[peyton randolph]

Federal Land and Buildings Ownership

Percent of all land in America owned by the federal government as of 9/30/2002: 

29.7% 

Total acres owned by the federal government in the U.S. as of 9/30/2002: 

674,099,756.3

[frankjr]

Does that number include or exclude the $1.1MM from the estate of the old broad who died a week or so ago and left the money to the U.S. Government to reduce the debt???

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561946/posts

[NaughtiusMaximus]

(And on the second day The Lord created February - the slowest month of the year.

) LOL! February, armpit of the year. Time of longest astronomical twilights. Time of largest booze and empty calorie consumption (at least on my part).

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Yeah! It paid the interest for the rest of us for about 3.7 seconds.

[xp38]

I can cover the 89 cents.