I'm so happy the CIA took the time to catch up. NOT!
Yipes
Yeah, we’re losing money, but we make it up in volume!
Do I really need a /sarc tag?
thought that was a given.
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.
I'm so happy the CIA took the time to catch up. NOT!
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.
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.”
bump
Maybe the taxpayers should be apprised of CAFR: Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (read about in an earlier thread....)
which may prove that the fed AND state gov’t, with all their crocodile tears over “no money”, would be found to be keeping TWO sets of books; One-they invest with, the Second, they use to fool the taxpaying public into thinking they’re broke and need to raise taxes.
Tea Parties, Facebook, Twitter and the internet should be used as OUR tools NOW to spread this “extortion of revenue from the public”.
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It’s official .............
The only thing that I find shocking is that we need the CIA to tell us this.
Oh that’s not true: I also find it shocking that so many of our leaders don’t care....
I wonder why it has the European Union as so high and then most of the countries in the EU are so low
...and in other news, Obama has passed Jimmy Carter as the Worst.President. EVER. Film at eleven.
It doesn’t take a spy agency to figure this one out!
This entry records a country's net trade in goods and services, plus net earnings from rents, interest, profits, and dividends, and net transfer payments (such as pension funds and worker remittances) to and from the rest of the world during the period specified. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
Rank country Current account balance Date of Information
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190 United States $ -380,100,000,000 2009 est.
we can’t be broke! there’s still more checks in the checkbook!
We’re broke! I’ve got an idea.... let’s pass a trillion dollar healthcare plan.
Ok, We’re broke.
Now please forgive me for asking what may be a stupid question, but what does this really mean?
I mean for all practical purposes.
With my current situation, I have a job, the paychecks get deposited, my credit card still works, I can take cash out of the bank, people and companies still accept it as payment, I can still buy things like food, gasoline,pay my bills by check, etc.
What am I not seeing?