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cliffelam · 4069 days ago · link · · parent · post: Representative Ted Yoho: "I think, personally, [breaching the debt ceiling] would bring stability to the world markets”
Well, considering that Germany spends 1/2 of what the US does on defense and the rest of the EU 1/8th I'm not sure what "good" means in a geopolitical sense. Add to that the 1/16th spending on medical research, 1/8th spending on engineering, etc, etc and what you have is essentially an aging free rider system with a demographic time-bomb waiting to go off. No thanks, not here if we can avoid it. _XC