Dr. Who wrote:
breakfree wrote:
Dr. Who wrote:
<quote>No. When you dump the dollar, you dump the debt associated with it. The new currency would be a clean slate.
That’s good to know breakfree. If I ever get in debt with my UK bank I’ll just refuse to pay in GBP and wipe the debt clean.
Care to try giving a rational answer? A government has the power to form a currency. It also has the power to discard it and start a new one. I remember seeing some economist on TV talking about doing just that. He said they could call it the Patriot dollar. You also might have heard that when the Confederacy split from the union, they started their own currency. Hitler did something similar and created what were called Mefo bills. To get out from under the crushing debt of the Reichsmark. Doing so, he was able to turn Germany's economic misery into the economic envy of the world.
My answer was a rational answer, I just didn’t explain.
The confederacy started it’s own currency not to abandon debt. Hitler created schemes to aid, he didn’t abandon the Reichsmark. He defaulted on repatriation as laid out in the Versailles treaty, which wasn’t actual debt, but a demand for payment.
What would happen if the US reneged on its debt is that every country in the world would dump its treasury bonds, abandon the dollar and the central banks would stop lending. No one would do business with a country that doesn’t pay its debts and the US economy and the reserve currency would collapse overnight.
If a debt could simply be cancelled at the whim of that country, the US would not now be drowning in its debt interest.
Dr. Who smashes dopey cultsmasher.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Here’s a tip. Stick to googling and don’t get involved in debates with people. You will lose most of the time because your general knowledge is low. Not that it really matters I suppose, because in your own mind you’re never wrong even if it’s proved so.
Whilst rubbishing the mass-media (quite rightly), if it wasn’t for that media you probably couldn’t string a sentence together on your own. I already know that everything you say is someone else’s opinion you got off google and if it wasn’t for google you wouldn’t exist.
Wind you up like a little toy dog and have you running around barking and growling until your batteries run out, or I get bored. I think you'll win that one and I’ll get bored first.
[/quote]
I wonder why you choose to be my enemy. Is it because you thought you were going to be the top dog around here and that didn't turn out to be? But let's get back to your nonsense. When the Confederacy started its own currency, no doubt they abandoned any debts to the North. So see, it can be done. It was done. And I didn't have to google it to figure it out. As for the Reichsmark, I never said Hitler abandoned it. He just basically sidestepped it with his MEFO bills. Next, fuck the banks. Every economist I ever heard from on the topic said that our debt was unsustainable. Sooner or later the whole thing is going to collapse. What happens then? You either stand up for yourself or let the elites do their damndest to play "wring blood from a stone" with you. As for the rest, you suck.