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- From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
- Subject: Re: Anyone want to buy a used country?
- Message-ID: <schuck.722411613@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Nov20.132220.21720@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Nov20.164443.26841@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Distribution: can
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:53:33 GMT
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- tcifelli@bmerh717.bnr.ca (Tony Cifelli) writes:
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- >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 that is sad but very true.
-
- >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.
-
- >Lots of countries have done this to other countries with no repercussions.
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- It seems to me the many countries that do do this usually end up with two
- classes, the rich who can protect their assets and the poor who have
- none to protect. It usually means the death of the middle class, some
- of whom become rich, and most of whom become poor.
-
- Thats whats going on in the country right now.
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