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- From: jimo@cisco.com (Jim Oneil)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Bankruptcy by 1995..
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:07:01 GMT
- Organization: cisco Systems, Incorporated
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- In article <4259@master.CNA.TEK.COM>, mikeq@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM writes:
- |> Actually, isn't it a wee late to even start trying to pay off a $500-trillion
- |> debt in just two years? It will take at least that long for us to fight over
- |> whose taxes to raise and whose subsidies to cut!
-
- The problem is not to pay it off in 2 years, but to stop the increase in
- debt and begin paying it off. The deficit is the biggest problem since it
- continues to fuel the fire, increasing the debt each year. We need to turn
- the tide and start reducing the increase in debt financing by the US government.
-
- |>
- |> How about just letting the whole system collapse and see what rises out
- |> of the ashes? There's a buck to be made in any economic situation, even
- |> national economic/social disintegration!
-
- Someone will probably do OK, but after a bit of thought, and looking at
- countries that have this problem, I don't think there are enough winners
- to make this a viable alternative.
-
- This probably is the wrong place to discuss the ramifications of social
- disintegration, but there are modern day examples: lebenon, somolia, and
- LA (obviously stretched somewhat). I don't want to live in a place that
- has complete anarchy personally.
-
- In a more invest orientation:
-
- Much of the debt is "owed" to people in the US via social security, T-bills,
- and savings bonds. Is it possible for the government to avoid some of the
- Bankruptcy 1995 scenarios if there are selective defaults affecting only
- US citizens? If nothing else is done I expect that any accounts with foreign
- currency will be converted to US $$ at the "official" exchange rate, the
- government can change the rules at any time.
-
- |>
- |> Besides, American democracy can't possibly survive anyway. Our problems
- |> are too overwhelming; our people too ill-educated, nonproductive,
- |> dependent, and apathetic; our government too corrupt and self-serving.
-
- I prefer to look for solutions.
-
- |>
- |> Okay, call me an optimist!
- |>
- |> Mike
-
- -Jimo
-