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2017-09-04 Government

Financial firms raising alarm over US debt ceiling

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Step 1: Put Con~~gress~~men on Obama Care and cut their salaries and perks in half. But offset that by giving them more holidays away from DC.

Posted by Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-09-04 00:41|| 2017-09-04 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2

Step 1: Put Congressmen on Obama Care and cut their salaries and perks in half. But offset that by giving them more holidays away from DC.

Step 2: Fire 70% of public employees (because they are unnecessary, considering that in 1960 only around 5% of American workers were in the public sector and now it's 20%).

Step 3: Deport the illegals, and put the head of any business that hires illegals into hard-time jail for five years.

Step 4: Decrease the pay of remaining public employees to be no more than what an average private worker makes.

Step 5: Oblige the fired hacks to choose between a) whatever jobs they can find in an illegal-free hiring environment for whatever pay that gives, or b) economic oblivion.

At which point the debt ceiling becomes way, WAY less of a big deal.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-09-04 05:12|| 2017-09-04 05:12|| Front Page Top

#3 American financial firms are expressing alarm over fears that an increasingly dysfunctional US Congress may fail to reach an agreement to raise the country’s debt ceiling.

Bad news for them - good news for everybody else?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-04 05:23|| 2017-09-04 05:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Yep, those are the financial firms who's members rotate between their offices and those of the Treasury and Fed. The ones that have been inflating the economy since 2008 so all those mortgage paper and notes that went underwater are now back to their book values while we pay double for basic commodities (which strangely are not counted in the inflationary measure).

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-04 08:18|| 2017-09-04 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The existing debt can never be paid off & will never be paid off. This is an impossible situation and will not last forever. But then neither will we.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-04 11:15|| 2017-09-04 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 It's good of the Iranians to be so concerned about what out thieving bankers think about our thieving government.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-09-04 14:07|| 2017-09-04 14:07|| Front Page Top

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