[RFEngineer]

“hmm, the federal employees actually pay their own retirement ~ surprising to find you think you can just confiscate it.”

So you feel entitled, no matter how much it costs taxpayers, which was exactly my point. You don’t care how much it costs taxpayers because you actually think that “federal employees pay their own retirement”. It may even be partially true.

But when the money runs out, it’s gone. Even the money for the sainted federal retirees such as yourself.

“So, how about us seizing your stuff first and selling it to raise some cash?”

You don’t think they WON’T do this in the final throes of financial collapse?

We do not have the money. It cuts through all the whining from ex-feds like you. Whether you are entitled or not, we don’t have the money.

Do you get it yet? We do not have the money.

Oh, did I mention that we do not have the money?

[MrB]

I wonder who the “us” is that’s going to seize your stuff and sell it.
It certainly won’t be the cowards proposing such an idea showing up on your doorstep demanding their “share”.

[muawiyah]

Turns out the debts and obligations of the united states can't be discharged in court ~ so you are kinda' stuck with the debt. it's the same with Social Security. if you want to repudiate it you probably need to refund the money on deposit ~ that's about $6 trillion.

Let me put it this way, the people you elected to Congress borrowed the money ~ but nobody authorized them to just steal it.

There's this other little problem ~ the federal government owns 30% of the landmass and another area of economic zone that's just as big. The USA has assets that can be used to shore up whatever cash shortages you might imagine exist. Those assets are immense.

i see no reason for the federal government to build a highway through your town and fail to collect tolls they can use to repay me for the money i entrusted to them.

The entire interstate system is a serious asset ~ put it to work!

Same with our carrier fleet ~ ancient empires used Tribute ~ so can we.