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Defaulty Towers: How dangerous is the US Debt Ceiling?
Many Happy Returns
Pension Craft Podcast - Many Happy Returns
Almost half of social security debt is held in trust for American retirees. If you're talking about who would you be screwing over, if somehow you could not pay the debt with no consequences? It's current and future retirees in the US who are hurt more than anything. The dealers as follows: You give money to the US government with the understanding that you'll be repaid. That deal, that contract with the government must never be broken. squandering that trust is something which would be catastrophic for the US government. Well, I can't even default once, Rameen. Let me default once.
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