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- ********0
i think it's time for bush to walk trough the money factory. no ? :D
- mrdobolina0
Conservatism is a hoax perpetrated on idiots.
- Drno0
- GeorgesII0
bump for the laughs
- Amicus0
America's biggest 4 enemies of the 20th century make up the top 4, while the US languishes right down the bottom.
Australia, with a supposedly strong economy also manages to spend $30 billion more than it makes.
There has been some downright silly decisions in government over the last 20 years, and things are probably going to get worse before (if) they get better.
- moldero0
outsourcing was a great idea.
- moldero0
why did i ever think Russia was broke? It must have been that 1 day I watched Fox
- ********0
oops
- hektor9110
Thats actually pretty sad!
- detritus0
Now, if only most of the people in this thread (myself included) actually knew what any of this means.
What I do know is - at the heights of their respective powers, both Holland and England ran HUGE 'deficits'... but said deficits were exactly the oil that ran their Empire engines. In fact, if it weren't for these structured deficits, they could never have achieved their powers.
Think about it - Holland has always been a tiny entity (England too, proportionately) - it was only because of the advanced debt mechanisms that they were able to inflate their proposition.
Deficit debt isn't the same as nameless black hole debt - just because an entity 'owes more than it appears to be worth' doesn't mean that it's 200% fucked.
What's important is that entities keep going and that entities maintain belief.
Which begs the question - why are certain stuctures so keen to sound the worst of the situation? Cui bono?
- Debt = wealth. That extra money is IN the country, as commodities, as things built, work done for wages.mikotondria3
- Who wants fucking money ? No one, everyone wants the things it buys. Money is useless, as is gold. Can't eat gold. Or fuck it.mikotondria3
- Exactly - money's there to be spent - what's the point in keeping it?detritus
- perfectly written,
+1georgesIII
- plash0
http://www.fedstats.gov/cgi-bin/…
more relevant data.and just a side thought: i read somewhere that the cia has been repurposed because is doesn't know shit about the world anymore. something in the manner that it has to watch cnn for world events since there are more news correspondents than field agents around the world..
- this data in op doesn't really show the full picture without the nations GDP next to it.plash
- detritus0
OMG LOOK AT TEH DEBTZORS!!!11one...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busine…
...to each other, so... erm... wait, what?
Sorry, what the fuck's all the shouting about End Times Scenarios for, again?
- ********0
Motherfuckin Zimbabwe is more stable, financially.
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- hard to over-leverage yourself with nothing to leverage....********
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- cannonball19780
Hey, these are your kids who are paying this shit off. I don't have kids.
- duhsign0
why is there a trade deficit? Oh thats right because we sold our shit to foreign interests and global corporations who took our land, government, factories and jobs and would love nothing more than to see us fvcked in the a$$.