[QUOTE=Eudoxia;42505302]Why are you guys complaining? When you voted him in, raising the debt ceiling was detrimental to your children!
[IMG_THUMB]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWJxx61CEAEGjaw.jpg:large[/IMG_THUMB][/QUOTE]
that was as a congressman not president but still lol
Hope I don't lose my house.
I'm worried about a couple of friends who live on SSI right now. I'm afraid I'll never be able speak to them again because they could be kicked out onto the streets...
[QUOTE=helpiminabox;42503888]This has probably been discussed in other threads, but has any country ever defaulted before?[/QUOTE]
Egypt defaulted in 1876 and it ended with the British taking control ofthe country. Also, North Korea but who cares about them.
[QUOTE=AtomiCal;42503846]im crying. we are gonna be poor.[/QUOTE]
i need to phone obama and demand a refund
Nobody really knows what will happen if the US defaults. We do know though that at best it will be a disaster for America and at worst a shutdown of the global economy. Somewhere in between there
[QUOTE=frozensoda;42503947]Well, I have made [B]$5,600 [≈ 2007 CEO hourly pay][/B] in the last ten months. I rely on welfare at this point, and it is down for "technical problem" right now. Will welfare be cut after this? I have had an incredibly hard time finding a job, even mcdonald's is not hiring here, and it took some months for me to get that desperate.[/QUOTE]
I have a plugin in Chrome that always shows some comparisons to numbers. This makes your situation look even more fucked up.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42504241]Do these retards fucking know that they're affecting the whole world and not only America with their petty squabbling?
If the fucking USA defaults the EU and other countries will be fucked again just as we're about to recover from the last recession[/QUOTE]
They don't give a fuck about anyone past themselves.
[QUOTE=Robber;42507629]I have a plugin in Chrome that always shows some comparisons to numbers. This makes your situation look even more fucked up.[/QUOTE]
Kind of off-topic but could you give a link to this plugin?
And to think I was going to migrate to USA to work for Spacex next year... Well shit.
If we default, every politician should be charged for treason.
This is complete and total horseshit that they are allowing this worst case scenario to become reality.
Fucking pathetic.
[QUOTE=agentalexandre;42503921]As a non-American, can someone please explain what is meant by 'default? Will the US be reset to its default state? That might be pretty cool. A new clean slate for the Americans. Try not to fuck it up again okay?[/QUOTE]
yeah the country defaults back to native mode
[QUOTE=Squad1993;42508666]If we default, every politician should be charged for treason.
This is complete and total horseshit that they are allowing this worst case scenario to become reality.
Fucking pathetic.[/QUOTE]
revolt?
Godspeed you poor bastards
Man I can't wait to see the size of the riots if we default and the federal reserve runs out of money and everyone goes bankrupt.
That is if we still have internet, or television, or electricity, or a house..
[QUOTE=helpiminabox;42503888]This has probably been discussed in other threads, but has any country ever defaulted before?[/QUOTE]
Greece did last year, and Argentina did in 2001. Mexico did in the 80's along with Russia and all of Scandinavia did in the 1800s.
Well, look at the bright side: Even if the US defaults and you become poor you'll at least get a refund on your tax dollars while the government was shut down.
... Oh, it doesn't work that way? Okay, then, just hope Congress aren't all fucking nuts.
and then china swoops in to be global economic power, America becomes cheap labour under the new chinese overlords
anglosphere extinct within decades
[QUOTE=Saxon;42504214]I don't think the tea party is dumb enough to not raise the debt ceiling. Its a bluff they're trying to use as leverage against Obama and sway eyes away from there failings. In the end they'll fold and raise the ceiling but at the last possible second, Obama is just calling there bluff.[/QUOTE]
So it's like a game of chicken?
This comes to mind
[video=youtube;BdXY_I934Vw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdXY_I934Vw[/video]
[QUOTE=Radley;42504769]Tbh I'll gladly sit through another recession if america is plucked down a few pin holes on the
global playingfield. You government has shown that it should not be entitled with
the power that is entitled when you are deciding for america and therefore huge parts of
the rest of the world. They are incapable of running this shit.
No offence, american users.[/QUOTE]
No nation has shown the ability to do that. But its been a lot safer than regional hegemonies.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;42504282]Cause, he wants to save his precious ACA and not look like the criminal when it's really the Republicans. Honestly, ACA won't do jack shit when we default, so he did all this for precisely dick[/QUOTE]
This is a showdown thats been coming for a long time, if ACA didn't kick it off then something else would have.
It's not going to happen. We'll be saved by some Deus Ex Machina and do this whole song and dance again two years from now.
[QUOTE=gonedead0;42504952]No please, I'm not ready to leave yet. I was planning on going to Norway on 4 years. Somebody get me out of here! Help,[B] I need an adult![/B][/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;kscG_gs2BOc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscG_gs2BOc[/video]
I thought of that after you said that.
I GOTTA DO SOMETHING
Bravo, RT. That's a glorious, not at all sensationalist bullshit article.
[QUOTE=SexualShark;42505304]fuck obama.
fuck congress.
fuck the public for voting them in.
[B][I]fuck hope.[/I][/B][/QUOTE]
Why fuck Obama in this situation?
The only thing a 6 week extension would do is extend the government shutdown for 6 more weeks.
[QUOTE=Valnar;42510368]Why fuck Obama in this situation?
The only thing a 6 week extension would do is extend the government shutdown for 6 more weeks.[/QUOTE]
Just fuck Obama for good measure? He's a handsome man!
[QUOTE=frozensoda;42503947]Well, I have made $5,600 in the last ten months. I rely on welfare at this point, and it is down for "technical problem" right now. Will welfare be cut after this? I have had an incredibly hard time finding a job, even mcdonald's is not hiring here, and it took some months for me to get that desperate.[/QUOTE]
Please tell me you are joking
RIP 'Merica, yall will be sorely missed ya hear?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2suo-Yw2LP8[/media]
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