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- From: gt@fc.sde.hp.com (George Tatge)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Act Now to Fight the Deficit
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:06:22 GMT
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- Gordon Hamachi (hamachi@adobe.com) wrote:
- : I've read "Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It"
- : by Harry Figgie, and it scares the hell out of me. According to Figgie, the
- : most likely results of inaction on the deficit are:
- :
- : A catastrophic market panic
- : Hyperinflation
- : 20% of American jobs gone
- : Social Security payments cut or eliminated
- :
-
- Excuse my extreme skepticism. If you are really convinced that this
- is all going to happen, why don't you just take the appropriate
- measures to get rich when it does? I'm always hearing doomsayers
- and almost never will they back up their predictions with their
- money.
-
- If you've borrowed all the money you possibly can at todays low
- interest rates and taken every penny you can lay your hands on
- and shorted all the bank stocks and blue chips and done other
- such pre hyperinflation sensible things than I might be more
- inclined to listen. If not, well then it's just more chicken
- little isn't it?
-
- gt
-