Reply #6: Well, it's the only way we'll learn [View All]

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So that next time our country's leaders decide to launch two elective invasions and occupations while simultaneously cutting taxes for the fatcats and handing out tax breaks to every large corporation that asks for one, we'll know. Now that the titans of Wall Street have gorged themselves on the U.S. Treasury, it's time for the hoi polloi to tighten their belts, and observe a little austerity so we can continue funding two occupations and keeping the tax rate low for the plunderers. They stole the money fair and square, and it wouldn't be right to take any of it back.

So, we need to cut social security. The IMF is fully aware of who this will hurt the most, given their track record of "fixing" the economies of other nations in the last 30 years. They don't care; their salaries are paid by the winners out of their plunder of other nation's treasuries. Anything else would be godless socialism of the worst sort.