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Nuclear Unicorn

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8. It's the same net effect

Reply to trumad (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 01:10 PM

Feb 2012

In a default benefits, government services, etc. still come to a screeching halt and it will be the politically disenfranchised that get cut-out first. When ANY government has a choice between paying either the police or paying for food assistance programs you better believe the police will win out; even in socialist democracies.

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No good options Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2012 #1

austerity does not work... trumad Feb 2012 #2

Neither does bankruptcy -- As I said: no good options Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2012 #3

I'd take default anyday over austerity... trumad Feb 2012 #4

Yup. All austerity does is perpetuate and validate the systemic theft. woo me with science Feb 2012 #5

it's the people that suffer under austerity. trumad Feb 2012 #6

The people suffer, and they consolidate their power. woo me with science Feb 2012 #7

It's the same net effect Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2012 #8