I know that no politician wants to say ‘I failed’, ‘we’re broke’ ‘we’re out of the Euro’ ‘we’re gonna suffer for a couple of years’.
But , if they don’t , we’ll be enslaved for eternity , to the financial sector which has taken all the other levers of power away from us.
This is called 'kicking the can down the street'.
Luckily for us, there's a proxy war going on in the silver markets which should
give the whole corrupt system its toe-tag.
Suicide is the only option. Those politicians, realising that they can't go forward, or backward,
have two choices,
become re-born humans and close the banks, or
kill themselves,
before the starving crowd gets a chance.
[I always thought ties presented themselves well for the job seeing as they cut off the circulation to the head anyway.]
-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout:
Now you're talking: New York Times finally shows the rest of the US how to default on loans, particularly states and cities:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21bankruptcy.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=states%20default&st=cse
Policymakers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles because the states are considered sovereign.
But proponents say some states are so burdened that the only feasible way out may be bankruptcy, giving Illinois, for example, the opportunity to do what General Motors did with the federal government’s aid.
Beyond their short-term budget gaps, some states have deep structural problems, like insolvent pension funds, that are diverting money from essential public services like education and health care. Some members of Congress fear that it is just a matter of time before a state seeks a bailout, say bankruptcy lawyers who have been consulted by Congressional aides.
Bankruptcy could permit a state to alter its contractual promises to retirees, which are often protected by state constitutions, and it could provide an alternative to a no-strings bailout. Along with retirees, however, investors in a state’s bonds could suffer, possibly ending up at the back of the line as unsecured creditors.
“All of a sudden, there’s a whole new risk factor,” said Paul S. Maco, a partner at the firm Vinson & Elkins who was head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Municipal Securities during the Clinton administration.
For now, the fear of destabilizing the municipal bond market with the words “state bankruptcy” has proponents in Congress going about their work on tiptoe. No draft bill is in circulation yet, and no member of Congress has come forward as a sponsor, although Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, asked the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, about the possiblity in a hearing this month.
House Republicans, and Senators from both parties, have taken an interest in the issue, with nudging from bankruptcy lawyers and a former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, who could be a Republican presidential candidate. It would be difficult to get a bill through Congress, not only because of the constitutional questions and the complexities of bankruptcy law, but also because of fears that even talk of such a law could make the states’ problems worse.... [and so on]
MaxKeiser.com
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