Monday, January 10, 2011

geithner says US insolvent

geithner says US insolventfrom lew rockwell: The U.S. government is insolvent. Who says so? Timothy F. Geithner, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Geithner sent a letter to Congress on Jan. 6, 2011 asking for the debt limit to be raised. If it is not raised, he warned, the U.S. will default on its debt. In his words:

"Never in our history has Congress failed to increase the debt limit when necessary. Failure to raise the limit would precipitate a default by the United States."

He didn’t say that the government will be inconvenienced. He didn’t say that the government would be forced to muddle through by delaying payments, raising taxes, and cutting non-obligatory programs and services. He said the government will default. This means that the government doesn’t have enough cash to pay its obligations to the many and sundry persons to whom it owes cash unless Congress authorizes an issue of even more debt.


related econocrash updates:
federal reserve becomes most profitable bank in history*
allen stanford's trial indefinitely delayed;
suspected cia banker became 'drug dependent' while in federal custody
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taxes to go up for lowest-income americans*
US 2010 home foreclosures top 1 million for first time*

2 comments:

The King Of The Real said...

What is going on with your headlines. The headline is inflammatory and inaccurate and borderline muckraking.

Anonymous said...

I need more debt too!

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