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Post #117,629
by jake123
9/12/03 11:41:50 AM
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New It can be done
as a proportion of our GDP, our debt in the early nineties was much greater than yours was. We've payed off (IICC) some 10% of it since then; that is, we've cut the size of our debt by app. 50 billion dollars. That would be somewhat similar to trimming half a trillion from yours.

Sure, at the current rate, it's going to take a century to pay it all down, but you know what? That's not really a long time in the life of nations.
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Post #117,667
by screamer
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9/12/03 5:29:47 PM
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New Man, if we could only look to the north...
we could see that some things are possible. The problem with this is (although most US'ers feel Canada and the US are really one entity separated by ones propensity to handle cold climate), because of your brethren to the east who refuse to stop talking that crazy surrender monkey language - we can't pay attention to the rest of your country on many issues other than SCTV (the greatest comedy series ever) and other entertainment/entertainers and fishing.

I thank you for trying to give hope. In all seriousness, I have small children who I hope will grow up with a decent standard of living and a peaceful time period in history. I haven't given up all hope, which is why I'm still bitching and pointing out the problem.
Just a few thoughts,

Screamer


But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

Y. Islam - Father and Son
Post #117,686
by Ashton
9/12/03 10:02:57 PM
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New Insouciance about that word "debt" appears now to be
deeply engrained in our ersatz-culture. I suppose I could dig for the usual #s re average CC-holders' running balances {at rates in the %20s}.

I know of university educated folks, some maybe only 5 years younger than I who thus, can add.. behaving no more sententiously about instant gratification than the 13 yo with a stolen CC at the Mall.

Naturally I'm biased, coming from a Gen whose parents lived the depression and survived (well, one of them) WW-II. I've never taken out a car loan, and have paid off CCs sfter using their convenience for the month - except for periodic intentional "min pays" to put a glitch into their stats on my habits.

(Real Estate loans never count - house buying in US has been a subsidized commodity almost forever - though even That is far less certain a tax-break now in '03, if one is anticipating a Reckoning occurring sooner rather than that fantasy of never.)

Hardly anything need be said about the stark hypocrisy of all the pols, and about the resemblance to the Ostrich of most Muricans - as expressed by Jake IIRC, "Tax & spend VS Borrow & spend" pretty well limns the shell game of premeditated langage murder.

Yup... Nobody wants to look at Crazy Aunt Maude.. still. ergo -

Nobody for President!
Nobody Can! bring rationality to a Murican Dreamstate policy.
Nobody Will speak honestly about the idiocy that is now epidemic.
(Nobody saves!) too..


(Nobody for Congress too - She Can Do It All!)


Ashton
     10 reasons why Bush won't get elected. - (Silverlock) - (16) - Sept. 10, 2003, 10:46:32 PM EDT
         You keep telling yourself that. - (bepatient) - (6) - Sept. 10, 2003, 11:02:01 PM EDT
             Right. - (Silverlock) - (2) - Sept. 10, 2003, 11:34:02 PM EDT
                 He might be more correct than you think.... - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Sept. 11, 2003, 06:18:08 AM EDT
                     Not quite... - (bepatient) - Sept. 11, 2003, 07:30:57 AM EDT
             s/the Dems/the USA/ - (pwhysall) - (2) - Sept. 11, 2003, 08:06:50 AM EDT
                 But our stones will be better than all others! -NT - (jbrabeck) - Sept. 11, 2003, 10:10:19 AM EDT
                 New phrase in Ontario - (jake123) - Sept. 11, 2003, 10:11:37 AM EDT
         Quit it!!!!!!!!!! - (screamer) - (7) - Sept. 11, 2003, 12:12:01 PM EDT
             Of course it increased... - (Simon_Jester) - (6) - Sept. 11, 2003, 12:37:18 PM EDT
                 Yep... But that's why this is so offensive. - (screamer) - (5) - Sept. 11, 2003, 01:05:54 PM EDT
                     Probably Not.... - (Simon_Jester) - (4) - Sept. 12, 2003, 09:27:04 AM EDT
                         Absolutely agreed - (screamer) - (3) - Sept. 12, 2003, 11:14:31 AM EDT
                             It can be done - (jake123) - (2) - Sept. 12, 2003, 11:41:50 AM EDT
                                 Man, if we could only look to the north... - (screamer) - (1) - Sept. 12, 2003, 05:29:47 PM EDT
                                     Insouciance about that word "debt" appears now to be - (Ashton) - Sept. 12, 2003, 10:02:57 PM EDT
         the winnah is? no taxes paid by anyone >$50K - (boxley) - Sept. 11, 2003, 10:33:00 PM EDT

Surreptitious semblances scamper surrealistically, strewing scabrous solecisms, simpering sophistry - striving sententiously - still, scintillating serendipity seems South. Zymotic, yellowish xeroxed vellums unsatisfactorily trumpet simple rationales: querulous ponderings of nebulous musings. Let knaves justly invoke hoary genuflection, for early doth craven biliousness atrophy.
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