hehe, not sure if everyone had heard about this. sorta old but still. I thought I had problems managing my money. Poor Rumsfeld, bearer of bad news. If anyone finds out where the 2.3 trillion went, be sure to pm me. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml
Lets see, *Calculates and thinks* Weapons, Wars, Bombs what else ? ... Come on man u dont need to ask...I cant believe that united states has a flu vaccine shortage... Just to help everyone not to flame, DONT FLAME !!!
That's just sad, it could have been used for something much better. Like buying every man, woman and child in America an $8000 PC, heh.
or how about paying back the huge debts the US has, though i doubt 2.3 trillion is enough to pay those back
that's the way things have always been with powerful imperial nations since the british empire. the british empire and also the third reich had debts all the time also. there's some complicated economic reasoning behind it but from what i understand none of these nations ever really pay back much of the debt. there's lots of info on this. just google for perpetual debt.
yeh economics aint my thing either but any wealthy country has debts with an evergoing loaning and payback process..If u google on 'US debt' the first thing you get is "I.M.F. Says U.S. Debts Threaten World Economy" LOL.that's scary
I think it was thanks to the Dutch banking system which allowed the gov'ts to borrow virtual money inorder to build those fleets and armies. Though to be honest, it's all Whoosh over my head.
Hes too busy talking about his "plan" Im stillt rying to figure out wtf his "plan" is. Its OK, it wouldnt matter anyways
Actually, while the British empire had debts (You need debts for various economic reasons), it was a massive creditor to the point that the debts didn't matter. Here we have a problem with too much debt that isn't countered by loans that will actually get paid back. If its really a problem is another question altogther.
debts are not necessarily a bad thing (Hamiltonian idea) because it keeps people invested in the government and interested in the govs success the problem here is that most of the debts is in bonds and a lot of nations have $ as do many investors tied into these bonds... if the gov defaults on these bond a lot of people and governments are gonna get screwed bad
all countries have debts they only get bad when the country cant pay the debts back, like us in Malta we have over billions of punds in debt and we cant pay it back but the government is stupid so it doesnt really matter cause right now we are good but in a couple of years the real **** starts happening and then it will be funny
2.3 trillion? Ha, pocket change. No really, that's alot of money. You could buy every person in Canada (~31000000) something worth $75000 US (~$100000 Can) or pay every person in the world ~$400 HOw about those $2000 toilet seats in the pentagon? And the US Federal Debt is 7.4 trillion. now THAT's mucho dinero.
The only country that doesnt have to pay debts is Iraq right now cuze the people suffered alot and Iraq needs money so almost he whole world gave up their debts on Iraq, pretty interesting ... Damn 2.3 Trillion...
$2.3 Trillion = 5.75 Billion 6800 GT's...one for every person on earth. ah, then there would be peace!
