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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich is most reprehensible?
(1.) Openly stealing 18 billion dollars from investors in a classic Ponzi scheme?
or,
(2.) Permanently diverting between 112 to 225 billion dollars (over 10 years) from bonds owned by the $2.7 trillion Social Security Trust Fund to finance general the fund deficits caused by placing simultaneous wars on credit cards while reducing tax rates on the 1% to historically low rates?
or, perhaps,
(3.) Attempting to pacify your electoral base by diminishing/mischaracterizing the book-cooking technique used to affect the diversion (the further rigging of the CPI calculation) as a mere "technical change"?
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Which is most reprehensible? (Original Post)
Faryn Balyncd
Dec 2012
OP
Excellent post. Rec. Each are reprehensible and the perpetrators should all be damned!
In Truth We Trust
Dec 2012
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djean111
(14,255 posts)1. Yes.
All are reprehensible.
No reason to choose one over the others.
Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)2. good thought
In Truth We Trust
(3,117 posts)3. Excellent post. Rec. Each are reprehensible and the perpetrators should all be damned!
TeamPooka
(24,236 posts)4. there is no lesser evil here.