Posted on 10/25/2018 12:08:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Everything was great until Trump became president!! [/s]
They don’t really answer the question. In fact they don’t even really discuss the federal government going bust. One of my buddies says that he thinks when the government goes bust the thing to invest in will be land. I would agree except that you don’t know what the politicians are going to do to try to fix the problem. If they jack up real estate taxes then maybe not.
Any solutions in this mental masturbation?
You can’t even talk about fixing any of this stuff without the democrats screaming that the republicans want to take you medicare and SS away etc.
I think Trump can give some fireside chats on how we got where we are and what we can do about it.
To his credit, Bush tried to point this out at the beginning of his second term and proposed restructuring social security to deal with the issue. He was universally reviled and demagogued by the media and the entire left for his trouble.
Answer - those with assets not tied to the dollar
Ditto. Didn’t see these articles under Obama who doubled the deficit.
Yeah, cut welfare.
Agree. Even land may not be safe as they’ll jack up taxes and/or regulations with the objective of confiscation.
Need assets that can be physically hidden and that can’t be diminished by inflation.
Needless fearmongering.
We’ll continue to print Monopoly money and spend for as far into the future as the eye can see.
Who is going to stop us? Does anyone on the planet benefit from the economic collapse of the US? NO! On the contrary, that would plunge the entire planet into a new Dark Age.
They won’t like it, but everyone is going to let us continue to print dollars and pretend that they are worth something. They have little choice. The alternatives are unthinkable.
Our government really IS....too big to fail.
Same thing that been happening to us our whole lives. We will be stuck working until we die cleaning up the incredible mess of every thing the Boomers created
Such as what?
We pay so many millions to people that don’t deserve it. We pay foreign aid to countries that hate us. We pay interest to the bankers who own our monetary system. We are being farmed, fools that we are.
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Precious metals come to mind.
How many billions of dollars are illegal aliens draining from our state and federal coffers?
Seems to me, that would be the first thing to cut.
You are really asking that question?
“human institutions were never to be fully trusted to begin with, “
The author probably didn’t recognize how far-reaching his statement is ...
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