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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
if the US wasn't fighting useless wars and had a 1 billion per year defense budget, that would go a long way in fixing current problems. its all corrupt and doesn't serve the people in any way, shape or form any more. do i want to see friends and loved ones die to "fix" some kind of problem i didn't have any real role in creating? no. the debt is just "made up" more or less. it doesn't exist in actual money. its all a stupid game that the average person will end up paying for, in many cases, with their lives. and for what? raise the debt limit to infinity. does it really make a difference? it will never be paid back at what it is, or what it was.
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Are you really this much of a child? The debt is real. It is real money. It's packaged and sold in many forms to investors. It has to be paid back with interest. It does matter. Defaulting on interest payments would be catastrophic both to the US economy and global economy.