teamosil
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You need to buy into less of the hype. Nothing would have been destroyed, we'd still be here, no one would have gone into bankruptcy if we didn't dig the hole deeper by increasing the debt we already cannot pay.
No one would have gone into bankruptcy? What do you think it is when you say you won't pay your bills anymore? That IS bankruptcy.
I mean, seriously, I know some portion of the right wing block in the house made a couple speeches claiming it wouldn't be a total disaster, but everybody who knows anything about anything, including most the Republicans, immediately denounced that as insane talk. Honestly I very much doubt any of them even believed it. They were just trying to come across as crazy enough to actually pull the trigger so that people would be scared enough of them to do what they said. They'd have to be beyond idiots to actually think that the US government can just refuse to pay for stuff it bought and everything is just peachy...