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Cankerpuss's avatar

I think we are already in the ash bin of history. Just like the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greesk, the Romans, the Ottomans, The Spanish, the British. Empires always fail. The one thing nobody is addressing is the debt of $36 trillion foisted upon the American taxpayers. And that is just public debt. Privately held debt including student loans, mortgages, credit cards and auto loans is estimated between $30 and $76 trillion. Public entitlements and benefits is projected at more than $200 trillion. That kind of money does not exist in this world. Period. The debt will not be repaid. When the collectors come calling the USA will finally meet the great ash bin of history. When that happens? I don't know. It takes a great deal of time to bankrupt a Republic. It took Rome 400 years to finally dissolve. The USA seems to be accelerated. Trump and all of his warriors are doing good things right now but none of them can solve the public and private debt problem.

Let's face it. The Government and its citizens are living well beyond their means. A reckoning is coming for this reckless behavior for both government and its people. They are pushing it back temporarily with the printing of foney money but that can only last so long before inflation finally wipes us out.

Nobody can stop it. Nobody can fix it. The damage is done. The money is gone. There is no money. Period.

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RickyRitardo's avatar

If I owe the bank $100,000 and don't pay I'm in big trouble. If I owe the bank $100 million and don't pay the banks in big trouble. The USA won't go down without taking the whole world with it. Ross Perot said our debt was unsustainable and the country's collapse was imminent. That was 32 years ago. That can has been getting kicked forever.

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Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

Why should you be so worried about this Cankerpuss?

Why all the doom and gloom?

After all, you are going to a better life in heaven aren't you!

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Cankerpuss's avatar

Tis reality. Unless you have any great ideas as to how all the debt is paid back?

I hope I go to heaven. Won't know until I am dead. If I do go to heaven, then great! I'll run around and pick marigolds and sing happy songs. If I don't and it's just oblivion then I won't care anyway. I prefer to err in heaven's direction, just in case.

How about you, Dennis Merwood?

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Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

There is no afterlife.

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Cankerpuss's avatar

How do you know this? Did you die and were brought back? Please, tell.

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

It's just his religious belief.

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Larry Carter's avatar

Based on his evidence.

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