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Old 09-20-2007, 01:57 PM
bobman0330 bobman0330 is offline
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Default Re: United States of America is about to run out of overdraft. LOL

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That's not what that means. "full faith and credit" is government speak for "My word is my bond". Isn't your word valuable to you?

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No, that's not what they are saying. They are saying that the ability to increase their level of debt is an asset. My word is only an asset if I can keep it, it is a liability when I cannot keep it. I don't increase the value of my word by increasing the number of times I borrow money, I decrease it by making it harder to pay back my initial promises as well as the new promises.

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I don't know exactly what this means, but I don't see how you could argue that the ability to borrow $9 trillion at 4.5% in your own currency is anything but a gigantic asset.
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