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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Fri Sep 20, 2013, 06:32 PM Sep 2013

Obama: "If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we'll be deadbeats"

Speaking from a Ford automotive plant in Liberty, Mo., President Barack Obama delivers the latest in a series of speeches that tout economic progress and address the fiscal showdown with Republicans.

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Obama: "If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we'll be deadbeats" (Original Post) Tx4obama Sep 2013 OP

K&R! thanks Tx Cha Sep 2013 #1

Too late, we did it in 72 under Nixon. BillyRibs Sep 2013 #2

Clarify yourself! I want a source with a link to a statement like that. shraby Sep 2013 #3

When the world started to see the US spending so much on The Viet-Nam BillyRibs Sep 2013 #4

Cha

(297,205 posts)

1. K&R! thanks Tx

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 06:43 PM

Sep 2013

BillyRibs

(787 posts)

2. Too late, we did it in 72 under Nixon.

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 07:15 PM

Sep 2013

This will just be the demise of the petro dollar!

shraby

(21,946 posts)

3. Clarify yourself! I want a source with a link to a statement like that.

Reply to BillyRibs (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 08:10 PM

Sep 2013

BillyRibs

(787 posts)

4. When the world started to see the US spending so much on The Viet-Nam

Reply to shraby (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 10:06 PM

Sep 2013

War. one nation, France wanted their gold reserves back. Nixon said no and defaulted. in response to French Demand came the birth of the Fiat Petro Dollar!

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2013/03/13/president-nixon-the-man-who-sold-the-world-fiat-money/

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