clinton to cancel 100% of debts???

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just heard on cnn,clinton wants to forgive 100% of foriegn-debts-so they can care for ''needs'' of citizens? is this y2k-related? why now. am i cynical?--or is this a move-to cover bases.WHY NOW?--WHO gets stuck with the debt??? gee maybe y2k will be a jubilee year[bible] every 50 years ALL debts canceled. if this is o.t.=delete.

-- why? now (dogs@zianet.com), September 29, 1999

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If'n he's bein' so gol-darn generous with our money how's about a little DO-mestic largesse. I wouldn't object to a little relief neither...

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), September 29, 1999.

It's rather simple actually. The assault on currencies and the shunning of the leper lists has already begun. If he doesn't knock these out, it will certainly fuel economic chaos. This would be a huge boost in the arm for the markets, however I doubt that all players would like to see this happen. It truly plays havoc with the "free markets".

And he get's to look like a decent guy, something he's clearly not.

Or maybe he's sleeping with an intern at the IMF, who knows. Slick is one slippery sonofabitch.

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), September 29, 1999.


Isn't it heart warming to hear that some politician wants to give all those billions to foriegn countries? Gosh, it would seem as if he might ask us citizens if we want to supply our money to let him choose who gets it gratis. Now that I think about it, there are a few 'countries' that might be able to use some of that money he wants to freely give. I'm thinking of Appalacia or perhaps the little country of North Carolina... Of course I'm such an intolerent bastard..wanting to help the people who have spent their lives paying in , and now when they are down on their luck,our beloved president has the balls to 'feel the pain' of others beyond our borders to the extent that he would give them money while 'lending' money to his own beleagured citizenery. I don't expect this to bother the majority of us though, after all we condoned,and practically encouraged this man to corrupt the White house and wag his finger in our face (before the dress was found) Some times I think I must be in a really bad dream to see how truly tragic our leadership and our country has changed. So, for all you politically correct people who are so broad-minded and soooo sophisticated, here is your president and welcome to him...I think I will go to church this Sunday and beg forgivness for all of us for allowing our wonderful ,beautiful, bought with patriots blood, country to end this way. I pray that God will realize that we don't all subscribe to this pitious degradation of the land and the freedom he gave us.

-- citizen (lost@sea.com), September 29, 1999.

Ya know, I'm not so sure he can do this. It amounts to an illegal 'taking' of assets by the govt. No one game *him* the authority to do this...

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), September 29, 1999.


Go to church and pray he doesn't do it and Al-d, get the hell out of here!

-- anti-al-d (anti-al-d@church.now), September 29, 1999.


believe or not... thinking calling your elected official to request same for us would work?

http://cnnfn.com/1999/09/29/emerging_markets/wires/imf_clinton_wg/

-- wd s (wd@toptexas.com), September 30, 1999.


citizen- I am really with you on this. It's an insane gesture, and if it garners any attention at all it will only be from republicans trying to boost their numbers at the polls. Of course nobody gave Clinton the authority to do this (or 99.5% of the other things he's done). He IS authority. He has raised the cry of VETO and EXECUTIVE PRIVELEDGE to an art form. And I am sure he is relying on the "accident" of y2k to keep him in familiar surroundings for many years to come. Rant off. Good catch Al!

-- Gia (laureltree7@hotmail.com), September 30, 1999.

This is the final straw. I don't know about you guys but the IRS has seen my last tax return whether they make it or not.

-- Nikoli Krushev (doomsday@y2000.com), September 30, 1999.

HELLLLLLLOOOOOOO....DO WE SEE A TREND? All that travel this past year, all those dates with NATO and UN, all that trying to get the US to pay for NATO and the UN, all those statements about needing a "new infrastructure for the 21st century". (Strange also that in the past week or so, two major figures (Sec of State and Ted Turner) are making statements about globalism or socialism--they must be seeing something coming or trying to make it come) Now, what better way to get the world leaders to LOVE HIM than to lobby (WITH OUR RECENTLY-VETOED TAX RELIEF) and our BILLIONS OF SUPPOSED EXCESS than to say, "You don't have to pay the American taxpayers back because I am such a nice guy." Sounds to me like the man is looking for his next job.

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoooooo.com), September 30, 1999.

The rational me wants to believe the explanation that Gordon (Gecko) gave above. Paranoid me thinks that tt is correct. He is looking for a bigger title than CINC. Either way it's bad news for the rest of us.

-- Me (me@work.office), September 30, 1999.


Something for nothing? Yeah sure.

Make no mistake about it, this so called forgiveness of debt came at a price to the africans. You and I will not see the benefit of this, but Clinton and his cronies will. Count on it.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), September 30, 1999.


So Klintoon is wiping out the international debt numbers before the computers do, it'll never be repaid either way. Just like the new incredible budget surplus which he pulled out of his...... sleeve. It doesn't matter squat, 'cause it's all just hoopla over something that won't be around in one hundred days.

To me this proves that he knows the game's going to end and not just be a BITR. I predicted that when the handwriting on the wall was clearly readable he was going to start this kind of crap. And I'll state that I do see it happening now.

I imagine that by Christmas, Klintoon will have announced a cure for cancer, Aids, the cold and mental depression, all due out to the public by middle next year. And maybe there's another Mars rock full of some kinda sign of extraterrestrial life that he can announce, too.

I just wonder as the jig is up will he come out and say "All of this could have been except...(big Presidential sigh and lip bite) those damn Conservative, Republican, Y2K wackos have caused this problem with the computers..."

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), September 30, 1999.


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