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3. The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) is underfunded and thousands will lose their

Reply to lunasun (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:07 AM

Mar 2020

pensions, millions are stuck with student loans they will never get payed off and millions have no health care. We didn't have any money for those things, we can't pay for them the deficit yada yada yada. Now the travel industry is hurting and suddenly $1,000,000,000,000 shows up.

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