Sometimes it seems to go round so fast that it's in several places at once. I think I read somewhere that, with all the loans and credit lines that exist, each dollar is, on average, technically in eight places at once!
Wade.
We're sunk!
- (tuberculosis)
- (13)
- Dec. 19, 2006, 07:48:12 PM EST
the magical mythical surplus emerges as a deficit
- (boxley)
- (11)
- Dec. 19, 2006, 10:05:31 PM EST
Debt is debt.
- (imric)
- (10)
- Dec. 19, 2006, 10:27:01 PM EST
SS is a social construct not a promissory contract
- (boxley)
- (9)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 07:50:07 AM EST
ROFL
- (imric)
- (8)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 08:46:49 AM EST
the money coming from your check pays current receiptients
- (boxley)
- (7)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 09:45:18 AM EST
You're both feeling different parts of the elephant.
-NT
- (inthane-chan)
- (1)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 10:00:45 AM EST
I get confused at how the money goes round and round.
- (static)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 08:38:07 PM EST
Heh. And the SS 'scheme'
- (imric)
- (2)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 11:15:34 AM EST
ponzi takes money from many to pay few
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 11:24:41 AM EST
ROFL - of course it's not a contract.
- (imric)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 12:03:49 PM EST
?
- (mmoffitt)
- (1)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 04:06:48 PM EST
ROFL - nah - the gummint
- (imric)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 04:14:12 PM EST
Inflation, immigration, and tweaking will "fix" it.
- (Another Scott)
- Dec. 20, 2006, 12:03:57 PM EST