According to C.I.A. report, we're broke.

CIA Factbook ^ | February 24, 2010 | Central Intelligence Agency

[optiguy]

Scroll to bottom of list. BTW I did a search and didn't see it previously posted.

[Clintonfatigued]

Yipes

[optiguy]

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html

[papasmurf]

Yeah, we’re losing money, but we make it up in volume!

Do I really need a /sarc tag?

[dalebert]

thought that was a given.

[flowerplough]

According to C.I.A. report, we’re broke.

If we were Napoleonic France, say, we’d be trying to sell Louisiana to the quickest bidder.

[Mpatl]

How about $100 million from Mr. Reid of Nevada?

[Frank_2001]

Once upon a time, to say “Aah,if you think we got it so bad here, why don’t you go live in Russia?!” (#7) was an insult. Now it looks like an attractive alternative!

[AuntB]

“According to C.I.A. report, we’re broke.”

We didn’t need a CIA report to tell us that, did we?? We’ve been broke for quite some time.

[Moe Tzadik]

Nothing our arch enemies haven't known for a long time...

I'm so happy the CIA took the time to catch up. NOT!

[max americana]

I dont need the CIA to tell me that we’re broke. The Obama Factbook however..will tell you we need to print out more money.

[Tailback]

If we were Napoleonic France, say, we’d be trying to sell Louisiana to the quickest bidder.

Maybe the Federal Government should sell some of it's land in the Western states. Same goes for the States and Counties.

[muawiyah]

Good point ~ the report fails to address ASSETS and VALUABLES on hand. For instance, there's Fort Knox. Full of gold. All of it valued at far less than it's actual worth.

A minor accounting change, e.g. Gold = $1,000,000,000 per ounce ~ and everything is different.

[Vince Ferrer]

And its a pretty long way to just move up to 189th place.

189	Spain	$ -69,460,000,000	2009 est.

190	United States	$ -380,100,000,000	2009 est.

[BIOCHEMKY]

“Maybe the Federal Government should sell some of it’s land in the Western states. Same goes for the States and Counties.”

Who says this hasn’t already been happening? Who would the U.S. be selling this land to?

[BIOCHEMKY]

How much of the land in the Westerm U.S. that was grabed by the federal government is actually now a possession of the U.N.?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Wow! It took one of our 30+ intel agencies to figure that one out. I wonder how much government money they spent to solve this case? How many people were assigned to make this determination? 10? 100? 1000?

I could have spent 42 cents on a stamp and sent them a letter with pic of Captain Obvious on it saying “We’re broke.”

[VOA]

bump

[muawiyah]

None!

Haven't heard that question in ages.

The World Heritage Site deal doesn't change ownership of a site from the country where it's located to the UN. Those places are still ours, and we could seize them if necessary.

Remember, there are no blue helmeted secret soldiers hiding behind the rocks ready to leap out at us.

BTW, if you missed it, the white tracked military vehicles and tanks parked along rail sidings in Mississippi were, in fact, equipment scheduled to be SENT to UN "peace keeper" operations elsewhere in the world.

[Vince Ferrer]

Maybe the Federal Government should sell some of it's land in the Western states. Same goes for the States and Counties.

Or start selling what is underneath the western states.