NATION

PASSWORD

6 Weeks Left Congress

For discussion and debate about anything. (Not a roleplay related forum; out-of-character commentary only.)
User avatar
Gunstan
Envoy
 
Posts: 213
Founded: Aug 10, 2013
Ex-Nation

6 Weeks Left Congress

Postby Gunstan » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:06 pm

In 6 weeks (this is a rough number) from today, the US Government will be down to anything from 0$ to 50 billion (witch would last for less then a single day)

Congress seems to have few options

1. Let the government run out of money.

2. Raise debt ceiling (Nice way to say, we will deal with this later, when the problem is worse.)

3. There is no option 3 really, I suppose if worse came to worse the government could just start selling land,old military hardware,gold (assuming the gold is still there.)




So, what do you guys think the government should do?


Personnally, I think we need to end it and restart it.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.


Childhood is a short season.

User avatar
Blasveck
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 13877
Founded: Dec 21, 2010
Ex-Nation

Postby Blasveck » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:07 pm

Yes, restart it.

And all that debt will magically disappear.
Forever a Communist

User avatar
Skeckoa
Minister
 
Posts: 2127
Founded: Jan 06, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Skeckoa » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:07 pm

Define "End and Restart"
One of those PC liberals with anti-colonist sympathies
——————————
————————————
————————————
CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC
————————————

User avatar
Bombadil
Post Marshal
 
Posts: 18711
Founded: Oct 13, 2011
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Bombadil » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:08 pm

Sell Florida..

Everyone knows this is the right answer.
Eldest, that's what I am...Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn...he knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless — before the Dark Lord came from Outside..

十年

User avatar
Ainin
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 13989
Founded: Mar 05, 2011
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Ainin » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:09 pm

Gunstan wrote:Personnally, I think we need to end it and restart it.

Yes, because that's totally how debt works... :roll:
Republic of Nakong | 內江共和國 | IIwiki · Map · Kylaris
"And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"

User avatar
Regnum Dominae
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 12345
Founded: Feb 13, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Regnum Dominae » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:09 pm

Of course we should raise the debt ceiling. Debt is perfectly harmless as long as GDP growth is greater than debt growth.
I support peace in Israel and Palestine. The governments and people in power on all sides are an absolute disgrace, and their unwillingness to pursue peace is a disservice to the people they are meant to be serving. The status quo is not simply untenable; it is unquestionably unacceptable.

User avatar
Smoya
Negotiator
 
Posts: 7273
Founded: Jul 16, 2012
Left-wing Utopia

Postby Smoya » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:10 pm

Sorry...mind telling me what's happening?
Visit Sunalaya!

User avatar
Gunstan
Envoy
 
Posts: 213
Founded: Aug 10, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Gunstan » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:10 pm

Skeckoa wrote:Define "End and Restart"


Revloveution.



Annd when I said that, I was referring to those imbecils that run our country.


And actually, it could go away magically, get rid of the Federal Reserve.
Last edited by Gunstan on Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.


Childhood is a short season.

User avatar
Rutheinia
Political Columnist
 
Posts: 3
Founded: Aug 31, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Rutheinia » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:11 pm

Bombadil wrote:Sell Florida..

Everyone knows this is the right answer.

Hey! And who exactly do you plan on selling us to?

User avatar
Skeckoa
Minister
 
Posts: 2127
Founded: Jan 06, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Skeckoa » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:11 pm

Regnum Dominae wrote:Of course we should raise the debt ceiling. Debt is perfectly harmless as long as GDP growth is greater than debt growth.


Honest question... as of right now, is it?
One of those PC liberals with anti-colonist sympathies
——————————
————————————
————————————
CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC
————————————

User avatar
Ainin
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 13989
Founded: Mar 05, 2011
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Ainin » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:11 pm

Skeckoa wrote:
Regnum Dominae wrote:Of course we should raise the debt ceiling. Debt is perfectly harmless as long as GDP growth is greater than debt growth.


Honest question... as of right now, is it?

Pretty sure it is.
Republic of Nakong | 內江共和國 | IIwiki · Map · Kylaris
"And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"

User avatar
Skeckoa
Minister
 
Posts: 2127
Founded: Jan 06, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Skeckoa » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:12 pm

Rutheinia wrote:
Bombadil wrote:Sell Florida..

Everyone knows this is the right answer.

Hey! And who exactly do you plan on selling us to?


Maybe the Cubans have some spare change laying around under that bureaucracy-chocked island.
Last edited by Skeckoa on Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
One of those PC liberals with anti-colonist sympathies
——————————
————————————
————————————
CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC
————————————

User avatar
The Nuclear Fist
Post Czar
 
Posts: 33214
Founded: May 02, 2010
Ex-Nation

Postby The Nuclear Fist » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:12 pm

Rutheinia wrote:
Bombadil wrote:Sell Florida..

Everyone knows this is the right answer.

Hey! And who exactly do you plan on selling us to?

I good answer would be 'Anyone stupid enough to buy Florida'.
[23:24] <Marquesan> I have the feeling that all the porn videos you watch are like...set to Primus' music, Ulysses.
Farnhamia wrote:You're getting a little too fond of the jerkoff motions.
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses. . .
THE ABSOLUTTM MADMAN ESCAPES JUSTICE ONCE MORE

User avatar
Regnum Dominae
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 12345
Founded: Feb 13, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Regnum Dominae » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:12 pm

Smoya wrote:Sorry...mind telling me what's happening?

Pretty much "LOOK AT THOSE BIG NUMBERS WE ARE DOOMED!" without any context whatsoever for said big numbers.
I support peace in Israel and Palestine. The governments and people in power on all sides are an absolute disgrace, and their unwillingness to pursue peace is a disservice to the people they are meant to be serving. The status quo is not simply untenable; it is unquestionably unacceptable.

User avatar
Jamessonia
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 7702
Founded: Jun 02, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Jamessonia » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:13 pm

Rutheinia wrote:
Bombadil wrote:Sell Florida..

Everyone knows this is the right answer.

Hey! And who exactly do you plan on selling us to?

Spain. Russia. China. Anyone, really :p
Last edited by Max Stirner on Thu June 26, 1856, edited 48 times in total.
Economic Left/Right: -6.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31
“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”
- Mikhail Bakunin


"I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag."
- Max Stirner

User avatar
Blasveck
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 13877
Founded: Dec 21, 2010
Ex-Nation

Postby Blasveck » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:13 pm

Gunstan wrote:
Skeckoa wrote:Define "End and Restart"


Revloveution.



Annd when I said that, I was referring to those imbecils that run our country.


And actually, it could go away magically, get rid of the Federal Reserve.


Just....what the fuck are you smoking?
You should share.
Forever a Communist

User avatar
Bering
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 12712
Founded: Aug 25, 2012
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Bering » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:13 pm

Jamessonia wrote:
Rutheinia wrote:Hey! And who exactly do you plan on selling us to?

Spain. Russia. China. Anyone, really :p

I don't know most countries have SOME standards :p

User avatar
Ainin
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 13989
Founded: Mar 05, 2011
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Ainin » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:14 pm

Gunstan wrote:
Skeckoa wrote:Define "End and Restart"


Revloveution.



Annd when I said that, I was referring to those imbecils that run our country.


And actually, it could go away magically, get rid of the Federal Reserve.

Yes, getting rid of the institution that stops American finances from going down under will totally eliminate debt.
Republic of Nakong | 內江共和國 | IIwiki · Map · Kylaris
"And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"

User avatar
Skeckoa
Minister
 
Posts: 2127
Founded: Jan 06, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Skeckoa » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:14 pm

Gunstan wrote:
Skeckoa wrote:Define "End and Restart"

Revloveution.
Annd when I said that, I was referring to those imbecils that run our country.
And actually, it could go away magically, get rid of the Federal Reserve.


Nothing makes more sense than just not paying your debts. And then those people expecting a payment don't get it, and they can't pay their own debts, then the shit hits the fan.
One of those PC liberals with anti-colonist sympathies
——————————
————————————
————————————
CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC
————————————

User avatar
Gunstan
Envoy
 
Posts: 213
Founded: Aug 10, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Gunstan » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:14 pm

Blasveck wrote:
Gunstan wrote:
Revloveution.



Annd when I said that, I was referring to those imbecils that run our country.


And actually, it could go away magically, get rid of the Federal Reserve.


Just....what the fuck are you smoking?
You should share.


Do you know what the Federal Reserve System is?
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.


Childhood is a short season.

User avatar
The Nuclear Fist
Post Czar
 
Posts: 33214
Founded: May 02, 2010
Ex-Nation

Postby The Nuclear Fist » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:14 pm

Blasveck wrote:Just....what the fuck are you smoking?
You should share.

Ron Paul, by the looks of it.
[23:24] <Marquesan> I have the feeling that all the porn videos you watch are like...set to Primus' music, Ulysses.
Farnhamia wrote:You're getting a little too fond of the jerkoff motions.
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses. . .
THE ABSOLUTTM MADMAN ESCAPES JUSTICE ONCE MORE

User avatar
Bombadil
Post Marshal
 
Posts: 18711
Founded: Oct 13, 2011
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Bombadil » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:15 pm

The Nuclear Fist wrote:
Rutheinia wrote:Hey! And who exactly do you plan on selling us to?

A good answer would be 'Anyone stupid enough to buy Florida'.


Exactly.. we should sell it as Disneyland, and hide the fact it's a package deal for all Florida.
Eldest, that's what I am...Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn...he knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless — before the Dark Lord came from Outside..

十年

User avatar
Radiatia
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 8394
Founded: Oct 25, 2011
Ex-Nation

Postby Radiatia » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:15 pm

Bombadil wrote:Sell Florida..

Everyone knows this is the right answer.


Who the hell would buy Florida? California, I'd consider buying. Florida, you'd have to pay me to take it from you...

User avatar
Skeckoa
Minister
 
Posts: 2127
Founded: Jan 06, 2013
Ex-Nation

Postby Skeckoa » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:15 pm

The Nuclear Fist wrote:
Blasveck wrote:Just....what the fuck are you smoking?
You should share.

Ron Paul, by the looks of it.


♪♫ Pass the Ron Paul to the left hand side ♪♫
Last edited by Skeckoa on Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
One of those PC liberals with anti-colonist sympathies
——————————
————————————
————————————
CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC
————————————

User avatar
The Nuclear Fist
Post Czar
 
Posts: 33214
Founded: May 02, 2010
Ex-Nation

Postby The Nuclear Fist » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:15 pm

Bombadil wrote:
The Nuclear Fist wrote:A good answer would be 'Anyone stupid enough to buy Florida'.


Exactly.. we should sell it as Disneyland, and hide the fact it's a package deal for all Florida.

Put it in the terms and conditions, they'll never see it coming.
[23:24] <Marquesan> I have the feeling that all the porn videos you watch are like...set to Primus' music, Ulysses.
Farnhamia wrote:You're getting a little too fond of the jerkoff motions.
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses. . .
THE ABSOLUTTM MADMAN ESCAPES JUSTICE ONCE MORE

Next

Advertisement

Remove ads

Return to General

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Aadhiris, Ancientania, Andsed, Deblar, Dimetrodon Empire, Ethel mermania, Immoren, Kreushia, Magical Hypnosis Border Collie of Doom, Nanatsu no Tsuki, Plan Neonie, Reprapburg, Thermodolia, Tungstan, Unclear, Varsemia

Advertisement

Remove ads