Debt: The first five thousand years

[Elihu]

statism failing

sorry, working perfectly, working as intended. And, with the bastardized culture and security apparatus it has created to protect itself, how it will go on working

[coffin_dodger]

Drevil:

Just cut 10% of your military budget and voila! There's your money.

Quantum thinking in action.
In the real world of make-believe accounting, cutting a % of the mil budget will only result in having to borrow less - which is uncapped, anyway. The US is so overdrawn on it's credit card, no one dares call in the loans. Not least, because they have the military to fuck up anyone who does.
It's all pretty circular in nature.

[DrEvil]

Oh, I know it's never going to happen.

What do you mean by quantum thinking btw?

[coffin_dodger]

Just being facetious, I'm ashamed to say. Soz.

[DrEvil]

Dammit. I was hoping it was a compliment along the lines of "being able to hold multiple world-views at once and then collapsing it down to the correct one after processing". Oh well.

[coffin_dodger]

very good. Not bad at all for a quantum zealot. D'oh there I go again. Soz. I'll not mention it again. Promise.