Author Topic: Coherent budget plan anyone? (Read 498 times)

_Schadenfreude_ · « **on:** August 27, 2003, 05:51:58 AM »

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/27/news/economy/imf_deficit.reut/

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2003, 07:41:16 AM »

Thats a shame about Germany.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2003, 09:07:00 AM »

Oh well....at least they weren't called incoherent by the experts...never mind have a GI George Doll!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3184709.stm

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2003, 09:08:46 AM »

Mark Morford, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, last week wrote: "There he is, all faux manly and squinty and artificially buffed up, his gull-wing ears toned down and the thin-lipped brow-furrowed monkey confusion so common to his scrunched little face apparently erased."

Better get the lynching party ready too!!

Raubvogel · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2003, 09:22:01 AM »

Probably if we got to work collecting all the debts owed to us we wouldn't have a budget deficit this year. Hell, if we stopped all financial aid we'd probably have a decent surplus.

lord dolf vader · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2003, 01:20:30 PM »

or if the tooth fairy and easter bunny could convince thos mean ole iraqies we only want to help.

just as likely. and i dont believe anyone owes us 4 trillion.

ill have to check but im pretty shure.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2003, 01:31:09 PM »

There will come a time when the US budget problem will get so large, that we will be unable to sell our debt to generate financing. That's when we will all be screwed.

Krusher · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2003, 02:47:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Mickey1992
There will come a time when the US budget problem will get so large, that we will be unable to sell our debt to generate financing. That's when we will all be screwed.

maybe, but.... as a percentage of gross domestic product, deficits were larger in the early 1980s and early 1990s then they are now. We should be able to manage this debt just fine.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2003, 03:11:24 PM »

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maybe, but.... as a percentage of gross domestic product, deficits were larger in the early 1980s and early 1990s then they are now. We should be able to manage this debt just fine.

absolutly, just do what we did in the early 90's and vote bush out

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2003, 04:24:27 PM »

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Originally posted by capt. apathy
absolutly, just do what we did in the early 90's and vote bush out

One forgets that there was the other one...he was the one saying something about reading lips and taxes? Bit fuzzy on foreign politics and was wondering - was it watch my lips or read my lips?

funkedup · « **Reply #10 on:** August 27, 2003, 04:27:32 PM »

Coherent budget plan? If anything it's a little too coherent. It's basically "Spend like crazy so we can force the economic cycle to end earlier so we can get re-elected and our term will end before the debt bites us in the ass."

Raubvogel · « **Reply #11 on:** August 27, 2003, 08:07:47 PM »

I don't have time to add this all up, but I bet it adds up to a hefty sum:

http://www.clubdeparis.org/en/countries/countries.php?INDICE_DET=30

Martlet · « **Reply #12 on:** August 27, 2003, 09:08:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Raubvogel
I don't have time to add this all up, but I bet it adds up to a hefty sum:

http://www.clubdeparis.org/en/countries/countries.php?INDICE_DET=30

HA. Owned.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #13 on:** August 28, 2003, 03:27:54 AM »

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Originally posted by Raubvogel
I don't have time to add this all up, but I bet it adds up to a hefty sum:

http://www.clubdeparis.org/en/countries/countries.php?INDICE_DET=30

Pity that USA is not the only creditor though.......

http://www.clubdeparis.org/en/presentation/presentation.php?BATCH=B01WP03