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Re:Half of the US government's financial assets are student ... by empath75 on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:34PM (#16136521)
You can't get blood from a stone. If they don't have the money, they don't have it.
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Re:Half of the US government's financial assets are student ... by rco8786 on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:44PM (#16136595)
Right, and the gov't isn't exactly waiting on this money for solvency. This debt is just going to stick around for decades until people start to die.
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