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Time to Start Talking About America's Coming Bankruptcy
Townhall.com ^ | March 5, 2021 | Neil Patel

Posted on 03/05/2021 8:42:09 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 03/05/2021 8:42:09 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

For later.

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2 posted on 03/05/2021 8:43:28 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Kaslin

I stopped worrying about the debt when I realized it wasn’t going to be our country much longer.


3 posted on 03/05/2021 8:44:15 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurker

Anyone believe that the national debt will ever be paid? Or even the interest? Maybe pedo joe’s pals the ccp can bail us out.


4 posted on 03/05/2021 8:45:07 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Kaslin

Just WIPE the debt.

Problem solved.


5 posted on 03/05/2021 8:45:36 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Kaslin

This is all true. However, all Western industrialized countries are in the same boat — which is what is saving our bacon. Japan is worse than we are. Germany is probably in the best shape.


6 posted on 03/05/2021 8:46:45 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: faucetman

Like with a cloth.....?


7 posted on 03/05/2021 8:47:09 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

If the U.S. goes bankrupt, won’t China go bankrupt?


8 posted on 03/05/2021 8:47:37 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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To: Kaslin

The communist takeover of America is trivial?


9 posted on 03/05/2021 8:47:37 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: rktman

Anyone believe that the national debt will ever be paid? Or even the interest? Maybe pedo joe’s pals the ccp can bail us out.


That is the whole point of zero, or even negative, interest rates. Makes interest on the debt almost irrelevant. Of course, it’s the responsible people who actually SAVE who are penalized. Why? Because they will be the last to riot.


10 posted on 03/05/2021 8:48:46 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Yeah.... if you have loaned a lot of money to someone, the last thing you want is for them to go bankrupt.


11 posted on 03/05/2021 8:49:12 AM PST by kjam22
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To: faucetman

I agree.

On the one hand, there is no way we can pay off the debt.
On the other hand, there is “no way” we would ever just default on our debt.

We have to choose between those two and I think the choice is pretty obvious.
Defaulting on the debt will cause pain, but mostly pain for bankers. And they deserve the pain.

We need an Article V convention and we need a balanced budget amendment. Then wipe the debt.


12 posted on 03/05/2021 8:50:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: faucetman

“Wipe the debt”

And with it, banks fail, insurance companies fail, pension funds fail, all kinds of companies fail, mutual funds are massacred, and that is just a start.

Hard to comprehend all that would happen.


13 posted on 03/05/2021 8:51:11 AM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thdieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: Kaslin

What, there is a downside to spending two trillion dollars a year in imaginary money?


14 posted on 03/05/2021 8:51:47 AM PST by circlecity
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“The debt” and the “dafficit”. I’ve been hearing the doom and gloom predictions for DECADES!

What economic disaster has befallen us? NONE!

Inflation (near zero). Interest rates (near zero or negative)

Stocks, 401Ks soaring during a pandemic.

“THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!”

Still waiting, Chicken Little.


15 posted on 03/05/2021 8:53:30 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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No. If we could fast forward 100 years, I think the debt will be a million quadrillion bitcoin.


16 posted on 03/05/2021 8:54:13 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Kaslin

comparing debt to gdp is nonsensical.

tax revenue v debt: debt is 7x tax revenue


17 posted on 03/05/2021 8:54:51 AM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: rktman

Not all will be paid. The Fed will keep printing money to pay it until there is hyperinflation.


18 posted on 03/05/2021 8:56:18 AM PST by TTFX
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To: Kaslin

Time to Start Talking About America’s Coming Bankruptcy


Heh. I’ve been talking about it for years. Frankly, the one thing I’ve learned is that they can kick the can a lot further down the road than anyone ever really imagined.

The writing was on the wall in Spring of 2008 when they started QE. We’ve been living on borrowed time ever since.

And this ain’t just the US. It’s the entire world’s economy that is on the brink. It just needs that one event to reach critical mass. We won’t know it ‘till we see it.

Frankly, the lockdown may have been it. This hints at the reason for my tag line.


19 posted on 03/05/2021 8:57:08 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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Just WIPE the debt. Problem solved.

That depends on which side of the "debt" you hold. If you owe, you're happy to have the debt wiped. If your "owed" i.e. the creditor, wiping the debt is stealing your asset. Do you have mortgage debt? The collateral for the debt is the land and property. Wipe the mortgage and expect instant eviction from the collateral. Debt and equity erased along with instant homelessness.

20 posted on 03/05/2021 8:57:51 AM PST by Myrddin
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