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- From: jhsu@eng-nxt03.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Hsu)
- Subject: Re: Act Now to Fight the Deficit
- References: <1993Jan25.193802.11812@adobe.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:38:38 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.193802.11812@adobe.com> hamachi@adobe.com (Gordon
- Hamachi) writes:
- > 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
- >
- > Figgie writes, "This is not an exaggeration. In fact, I may be
- understating
- > the degree of calamity that will befall most Americans. It's going to
- be
- > awful, and whatever you think I mean by awful, you can be sure that it's
- going
- > to be worse."
- >
- According to the book The Wall Street Gurus by Peter Brimelow
- (which I highly recommend reading), Charles Allmon, author of The Growth
- Stock Outlook newsletter, said that when he attends a
- world-is-coming-to-an-end conference, he offers to bet the speaker $10,000
- that the apocalypse will not happen. Nobody ever accepted his bet.
- Figgie is correct that the national debt is a major problem.
- However, I agree with a Business Week book review that if Figgie's
- apocalyptic prophecy fails to come true, deficit fighting may lose its
- credibility.
-