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http://www.debt-clock.org/

Are you guys in competition with our government to see who spend the most?

Isn't the US debt clock around $12 trillion?

Yeah, so we have you beat pretty good in "How low can you go?".

"I think if would be simpler for me to clarify a few things right off the bat. By simple definition, we are in the business of winning wars. What else do you need an army for? Take the Cold War. We won, without firing a single shot. Why? One, we just flat-out out-spent them. The Russians couldn't shovel money into the fire faster than we could. Two, technology. No one shapes nature the way we do. We take atoms and molecules, and by the time we're finished with them, they're everything from combat boots to bombs, the kind of bombs no one from the other side will ever see until the damn thing's plowing down their chimney like Santa Claus from hell! "

That sounds familiar...

i'd like to point out that great Britain is a 1500 year old empire and they have a smaller tab then our relatively young nation.

So, uh, capitalism works, eh?

Originally posted by Liberator
So, uh, capitalism works, eh?

Of course it does...why, have you seen how prosperous the USSR looks?

Originally posted by Bicnarok
I recon they should pass a law setting all dept and money to 0, so we can start again on an even field.

No, then the poor won't know their place.

capitalism is dictatorship in disguise

Originally posted by Bicnarok
capitalism is dictatorship in disguise Except capitalism isn't a form of government. It's an economic system.

I love how seriously people take these numbers. Of course national debt is an important thing to keep an eye on but our economic systems rely on debt. It's what pushes economies further. Neither the US or UK are anywhere near a state of emergency. And the credit crunch isn't what I class as an emergency.

same with any other economic system, apparently...

Originally posted by Liberator
Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't the US been in a state of emergency since like the 20's?

No, but the US did spend the time from 1920 to 1978 in a state of emergency because no one bothered to check. After that Congress ruled that a state of emergency could only last 2 years unless actively extended.

I don't care too much for money; money can't buy me love.

Originally posted by One Free Man
I don't care too much for money; money can't buy me love.

In true capitalism it can.

Originally posted by One Free Man
I don't care too much for money; money can't buy me love.

Money is eternal. Love is rentable.

Originally posted by One Free Man
I don't care too much for money; money can't buy me love. It can buy me.

Originally posted by Mindset
It can buy me.

slag

Originally posted by Bicnarok
slag False... slags don't need to be bought.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
capitalism is dictatorship in disguise

The world gives dictatorship a bad rep, personally i think it's better to have 1 person dividing up the cake, then have 50 million people fighting for it.

Give dictatorship a chance.

Originally posted by Juk3n
The world gives dictatorship a bad rep, personally i think it's better to have 1 person dividing up the cake, then have 50 million people fighting for it.

Give dictatorship a chance.

http://shadowwar.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/stalin.jpg

Originally posted by Bicnarok
slag

so your just 1/2 a slag then,

Originally posted by Liberator
So, uh, capitalism works, eh?

Are you implying that it doesn't work because it isn't used efficiently?

Originally posted by Autokrat
http://shadowwar.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/stalin.jpg

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