Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
by joezydeco on Friday August 05, 2011 @09:49PM
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"Put another way, the Federal Reserve says that the nation’s net wealth is about $57 trillion. That figure would have to be $18 trillion larger to generate enough additional G.D.P. to pay Social Security benefits without making anyone worse off in the future through higher taxes or lower benefits."
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/the-real-social...