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Barack Obama

Hekate

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9. The safest place we could conceive of to put our retirement into was T-Bills. Half our retirement...

Reply to freshwest (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2013, 10:57 PM

Oct 2013

... is there. You would have to be out of your mind to think the US government would ever default on its promises.

Until now.

All of a sudden as I write this, I just want to curl up and cry. We are 66.

The usual suspects want this president dead, just like they did JFK. They are willing to bring down the whole country for reasons that make no sense to me at all.

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16 Ways Default Will Totally Screw Americans [View all] freshwest Oct 2013 OP

Debt Ceiling: 'Chaotic' choices on 100 million payments freshwest Oct 2013 #1

Remember, these are the same folks who went right along... KansDem Oct 2013 #2

Ain't that the truth.. I was reading Cheney's interview with Tim Russert just before the invasion mountain grammy Oct 2013 #5

Not raising the cieling is so stupid and fucked gopiscrap Oct 2013 #3

16 ways doesn't even begin to include all the ways Repukes rigorously screw Americans and screw indepat Oct 2013 #4

I'm not trying to scare people either; whatever happens, we will make it through okay. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #6

And another thing! IrishAyes Oct 2013 #7

I love all of that post. freshwest Oct 2013 #10

Screwing Americans in the name of America! sheshe2 Oct 2013 #8

The safest place we could conceive of to put our retirement into was T-Bills. Half our retirement... Hekate Oct 2013 #9