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To: combjelly who wrote (613620)5/29/2011 2:20:40 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 1577870
 
Paying them is no servicing debt payments. By law, and by the common definition of debt they are not debt. The US government could cut them to zero without a default (not without a massive political backlash, but the fact that such cuts are in practical terms a political impossibility, doesn't make them a default).