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Topic started on 17-5-2010 @ 10:54 AM by prionace glauca

US faces one of biggest budget crunches in world – IMF



Uk Telegraph

Earlier this week, the Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, irked US authorities by pointing out that even the world’s economic superpower has a major fiscal problem -“even the United States, the world’s largest economy, has a very large fiscal deficit” were his words.
(visit the link for the full news article)

Edit to Add: Link to article

[edit on 17-5-2010 by prionace glauca]


reply posted on 17-5-2010 @ 11:45 AM by inert
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Not sure where that chart came from. But it doesn't match charts that you might find in places like wikipedia. For example:



Which can be found embedded in this article:

en.wikipedia.org...


reply posted on 17-5-2010 @ 11:49 AM by Erasurehead
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S&F.
This is to be expected when the government bails out privately owned corporations and basically frees them of their debt and puts in on the shoulders of the tax payer.

Wait for it.."Austerity measures" will be put in place to try to pay down this massive steaming pile of debt that the government has burdened us with. Increased taxes and reduced services is what we will get as our side of this deal.


reply posted on 17-5-2010 @ 12:11 PM by prionace glauca
Originally posted by inert
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Not sure where that chart came from. But it doesn't match charts that you might find in places like wikipedia. For example:



Which can be found embedded in this article:

en.wikipedia.org...


I wouldn't call wiki the exact harbinger of information. The posted graph is from the article I posted, you should care to look at it instead of posting graphs for the heck of it.

In all reality, Every country in the world knows that this administration is corrupt & power hungry. This administrations policy will bankrupt America and the countries who have invested within America have a great deal to lose.


reply posted on 17-5-2010 @ 12:32 PM by HimWhoHathAnEar
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It is important to note the difference between the fiscal terms gross debt and public debt. In brief, the public debt is the gross debt less intra-governmental obligations such as the money that the government owes to the two Social Security Trust Funds, the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program and the Social Security Disability Insurance program.[4]

This from your wikipedia link. When all the liabilities are accounted for, the Debt is closer to 100 Trillion. Which is 600% of GDP. Can you say BROKE?


reply posted on 17-5-2010 @ 06:31 PM by bugstomper
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Funny how the USA spends trillions on stupid wars, and then people complain that actual useful spending is going to bankrupt the country. LOL!


reply posted on 17-5-2010 @ 06:35 PM by prionace glauca
Originally posted by bugstomper
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Funny how the USA spends trillions on stupid wars, and then people complain that actual useful spending is going to bankrupt the country. LOL!


Funny how people who aren't from America lack the basic understanding of why the IMF was calling Obama a F'n R'tard. Its not the wars that are going to bankrupt the nation, its European High Obama is on to take America further into socialism which was started by FDR.

How are the entitlement programs are holding up in Europe? And How many wars did you partake in to get into your dilemma?

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