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- From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
- Subject: Re: Anyone want to buy a used country?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.010247.4346@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <1992Nov20.132220.21720@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Nov20.164443.26841@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:02:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.164443.26841@bmerh85.bnr.ca> tcifelli@bmerh717.bnr.ca (Tony Cifelli) writes:
- >I think we have passed the point of no return. There is no way for the
- >government to pay back the enormous debt. The tax base just isn't big
- >enough. Cutting back a billion here or there is just a drop in the bucket.
- >I think the only answer is to continue to run the debt through the roof
- >and simply screw our debtors some day when they come to collect.
- >Its not as preposterous as you may think.
- >
-
- The trouble is that they will come to collect...with the IMF and even
- harsher austerity than the Tories have given us (the IMF will make the
- Tories look like the most altruistic of governments), and if we refuse
- to take the medicine of the IMF, Japan, Germany, and the US will come
- with their tanks.
-
- >Lots of countries have done this to other countries with no repercussions.
- >Most recently Canadian banks have written off loans to various Latin
- >American countries - like as if they could pay it back anyway. We didn't
- >exactly declare war on Brazil because of this. We still probably lend
- >them money. If we don't others will. Lending money is risky to begin with
- >and defaults are part of the cost of doing business.
- >
-
- No repercussions...there is incredible poverty in Brazil because of
- the IMF and World Bank sponsored "medicines"...and foreign-imposed
- austerity is part of the reason why the rainforest has been razed
- by desparate people.
-
- Gerald
-
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