Why are we not completely bankrupt

[kimmerspixelated]

at this point? Don't you think it is odd with all the Iraq debt, etc., that the US is still afloat? Because of the fact that we have a totally corrupt WH, who has decided to break all the laws and rules they can, why would it be any kind of a stretch to believe they have put in regular orders to THE MINT. Sure it's illegal, but so is everything else they do! My tin-foil hat says they are having lots of extra money printed up and are paying whomever is in charge there, a ton of money to look the other way. Why wouldn't they do it? What could possibly stop them? Not their conscience, that's for sure.

[shanti]

1. agreed

and i think we're in for a horrible surprise when (if?) they leave!

[BuyingThyme]

2. Lots of bombs.

[burythehatchet]

3. perhaps we are. Remember Enron. This is the same model.

[PDJane]

4. The US has depended for years on the fact that

it is the largest global consumer, consuming 28% of everything on the planet, every year, for 4% of the population. The fact is that the rest of the world is in a catch 22 position; we can't afford for it to go on, but we are going to have one hell of a time surviving the adjustment when the house of cards falls, too.

[The Straight Story]

5. I have pondered that and I have a guess as to why - that money did not all leave here

It came back into our economy to buy more weapons, pay more to soldiers, pay to contractors, and so on.

Even money that left our realm can be caught up with - example, Iraqi's paying US folks to help build new oil rigs, non-us contractors buying US tooled goods, etc and so on.

It still cost US as a whole because that money could have been directly invested back here at home to build new things/fix roads/etc which means we would not have to use even more money to do that later.

[whistle]

6. The U.S. and most of the world monetary system is bankrupt....

...it is only a matter of some crisis event or situation taking place which will break open the doors to the whole corrupt system to trigger the financial meltdown. The hedge fund implosions just might be that causation because it is the one institution embedded with the greatest degree of fraud and abuse and corruption.:hide: :yoiks:

[Rex]

7. Layers upon layers of debt and artifical money sources.

Fast cash on every block. A loan for the next week is just two weeks away!

[Double T]

8. The Iraq bushco 'war' is off the books and tens of billions just vanish.........

and no one in the government seems to really care. If the truth were known, we are totally, completely bankrupt; china buying our debt is the only thing still keeping our titanic nation afloat. On January 20th 2009 put on your life jacket because it will be every man for himself as the ship sinks to the bottom.

[kimmerspixelated]

10. So perhaps the new DEM PREZ

will have to deal with millions of soup lines,etc. the first year or so, in office? Because of the WH we have now? Interesting,that it may be set up just as you say. And really depressing, to say the least.

[Double T]

13. It will take decades to correct the collective damage done to this country........

by bushco and others. Unfortunately, someone has got to admit that there is a real serious economic and financial problem, before it can be dealt with. So far, NOTHIN'.

[MiniMe]

9. Partly because they just keep printing more money

And they won't tell us how much they are printing. When everybody starts trading in Euros, we are in deep doo doo

[Xenotime]

12. It's already happened. Many rich-tards have started moving thier money

[Yavin4]

11. Imagine You Had Someone Who Would Always Loan You Money

No matter how irresponsibly you spent it. Also, imagine that same someone not charging you really high rates of interest on it.

We're not bankrupt because someone is always there to loan us money.

[Karenina]

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[Rainscents]

15. WE ARE BANKRUPTED!

Feds are throwing (making) money like, I change my underwear daily.