Notices by dawnbreez (dbrz@unsafe.space)
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dawnbreez (dbrz@unsafe.space)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 21:55:21 UTC dawnbreez @lambadalambda Still seems like a bad idea to me. If you spend what you don't have, well, someone's gonna collect on that eventually. -
dawnbreez (dbrz@unsafe.space)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 17:05:30 UTC dawnbreez I had a thought while reading this book @lambadalambda told me about.
Why the fuck did anybody think spending money the US didn't have was a good idea? By their very own admission, one must pay one's debts; and the United States Government has a lot of debts. We might as well be standing out in an open field during a thunderstorm shouting "BET YA CAN'T HIT ME!".
And yet nothing's collapsed yet. Well, for a certain definition of 'collapsed'. And all this because, as usual, the sort of person who seizes power is not the sort of person who uses it responsibly. Rather than wait for funds to grow, these men throw money they don't have at problems that don't need solving, presumably so they can take home the surplus.