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Laugh while you can-US Gov. Stages Fake Coup To Wipe Out National Debt

• Lori Smith
You have to laugh when you watch these Onion Videos because what else are you going to do CRY? Why Default on U.S. Treasuries is Likely by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel* Almost everyone is aware that federal government spending in the United States is scheduled to skyrocket, primarily because of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Recent "stimulus" packages have accelerated the process. Only the naively optimistic actually believe that politicians will fully resolve this looming fiscal crisis with some judicious combination of tax hikes and program cuts. Many predict that, instead, the government will inflate its way out of this future bind, using Federal Reserve monetary expansion to fill the shortfall between outlays and receipts. But I believe, in contrast, that it is far more likely that the United States will be driven to an outright default on Treasury securities, openly reneging on the interest due on its formal debt and probably repudiati

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All hail Octavia. 



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