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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (201224)9/12/2012 9:36:23 PM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541900
 
- why in gawds name do we have to pay it back?


Bingo!

You tell me

We should pull ourselves in and forfeit our future for political mistakes of the past

..remediation of which will primarily make obscenely wealthy people even more so

It won't happen

Taxes must rise

In a real sense the future of our children depends on that

...and debt is an abstraction



To: Steve Lokness who wrote (201224)9/13/2012 1:45:45 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541900
 
<<Your argument is confusing. If debt is only an abstraction - why in gawds name do we have to pay it back>>

We owe the money to ourselves. How do you handle it when you owe money to yourself?