Shutdown: US ‘days’ from causing worldwide economic disaster, says World Bank

Belfast Telegraph ^ | 13 October 2013 | Kashmira Gander

[Olog-hai]

The United States is just “days away” from causing a global economic disaster unless politicians devise a plan to raise the nation’s debt limit and avoid defaulting, the president of the World Bank has warned. …

“We're now five days away from a very dangerous moment,” Jim Yong Kim said in a briefing on Saturday, then the 11^th day of the crisis, following a meeting of the bank’s Development Committee in the US capital Washington DC. …

[Oldeconomybuyer]

F the world bank. Without the US there is no world bank.

[higgmeister]

Joke’um! Give’um a dollar.

[tcrlaf]

I wish people, including many Freepers, would just wake the hell up.

THIS IS ABOUT POWER, and the naked application of it.

Obama isn’t going to negotiate. It’s his way, or the highway. He said he would “Fundamentally transform this nation”, and a shutdown/default goes a long way toward that, helping to fulfill the dream of the Black National Socialists, and the Academic Socialist Radicals, that the NWRO, which later became ACORN/SEIU was founded for express purpose of, CRASHING THE SYSTEM.

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Fixed your typo:

So not only does the US have 50% of its people dependent on the government, we’ve got the whole world dependent on it as well.
We They are so screwed

No need to thank me...

[DangerZone]

Let it. It’s going to happen eventually anyway. Might as well happen before our military is gutted of patriots and filled with dykes, fags, and wetbacks.

[PghBaldy]

My concern is that Obama would gladly default to get what he wants (I’m not quite sure what he wants besides raw power). I wonder if the GOP realizes this?

[higgmeister]

Will the screwball socialist sycophants say that Keynes was proved right or finally proved wrong?

[Rashputin]

Oh my Gawd !!

Big Bird shurgs, grabs his harpoon and dirty red bandanna to shoot some cash.

[riri]

I wish people, including many Freepers, would just wake the hell up.

I hear ya. This analyzing things as though it's "business as usual" is just maddening.

[jsanders2001]

Gets harder and harder to determine hats fact, fiction, or propaganda wielded by the tyrant’s agents that lie or distort the facts for them...

[GeronL]

What a joke

the whole idea that the US or world economy cannot function while some government functionaries are on paid vacation is a BIG JOKE

[jsanders2001]

It keeps getting harder and harder to determine whats fact, fiction, or propaganda wielded by the tyrant’s agents that lie or distort the facts for them...

[PeterPrinciple]

My concern is that Obama would gladly default to get what he wants (I’m not quite sure what he wants besides raw power).

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Most likely, he knows with great clarity what he doesn’t want but has no clue as to what he wants.

[higgmeister]

Obama isn’t going to negotiate. It’s his way, or the highway. He said he would “Fundamentally transform this nation”, and a shutdown/default goes a long way toward that, helping to fulfill the dream of the Black National Socialists, and the Academic Socialist Radicals, that the NWRO, which later became ACORN/SEIU was founded for express purpose of, CRASHING THE SYSTEM.

Then we all fight for what's left. They fight for the collective. We fight for individual human rights and freedom. Guess who will win?

[AdSimp]

Maybe, but when are our overlords in China going to pick up the phone?

Hey, Obama, have your fun, but you work for us, remember?

[riri]

Personally, I’d like to see the World Bank shut down permanently.

[grumpygresh]

Well, if thats true, I guess all the little people are going to have to take all their money out of their accounts.

[Olog-hai]

And the remedy is to . . . ?

[jsanders2001]

> F the world bank. Without the US there is no world bank.

I think that’s sort of what they are saying...: )

[jsanders2001]

> Well, if thats true, I guess all the little people are going to have to take all their money out of their accounts.

Seriously considering it.