United States the "wealthiest nation on earth"

[Jairo]

From my point of view, Osama Bin Laden's death is little compared to a 17 trillion dollar debt limit
If I could choose between having dead the most wanted terrorist on the planet or completely eliminating the debt entirely, i would choose the debt to destroy.

too bad you can't drop a bomb on debt

clearing 17 trillion dollars isn't as simple as all of you think it is

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[Zacks]

considering obama spent his entire first election trying to fix what bush forgeted up, he's doing very well for himself

you know, assassinating bin laden

keeping good ties with russia/china

not being a bumbling idiot

something bush couldn't do

Are you joking, have you even seen his bad side?

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threads full of uninformed teenagers are always good for a laugh

[Wispfire]

too bad you can't drop a bomb on debt

clearing 17 trillion dollars isn't as simple as all of you think it is

The first step is to stop paying congressmen while the government is loving SHUT DOWN. Seriously, you furlough half of the government workers without pay, and yet you STILL keep taking your 2k paychecks? Granted a few of them actually decided to humor us and not take the money, but they still have enough to last them a year or so.

[DiceyGrammar]

threads full of uninformed teenagers are always good for a laugh

good thing you're an informed teacher right???

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you know it

[TristanLuigi]

The only people that know what they're doing are independent, and will never get into office.
We need a rebellion, preferably peaceful.

[Nickelob Ultra]

@OP:

the $17 trillion mark was hit as the government reopened because of all the lapsed funding that was added on to our debt.

we still are (one of, anyways) the wealthiest nation in the world.  government debt =/= indicator of how our economy is doing.  our economy is doing well as far as post-recession goes, the problem is government spending and complete political gridlock (see: sequester, shutdown) as well as rampant deregulation that allowed for stuff to go loving haywire everywhere.

the progress being made towards solving the debt crCIA is being done by congress.  in other words, no progress at all and the can is continuously being kicked down the road.  if you want change, make change happen.  i don't want to come off as criticizing you harshly or anything, but political change doesn't happen on an online forum.

countries like china want the US dollar to stop being the global currency.  if the dollar stopped being a global currency, however, then our debt wouldn't be worth anything to the countries that bought it up like china.  that's about it.  there's still a total mutual dependency on each other for trade.

Lock this, take an economics class, then create a new post utilizing the knowledge you've learned.

God Dammnit, I hate this nation So much. I practically hate ALL nations right now, All of them are stuff, All of them are terrible, Humanity should just do a Global revolution, Or Just go back to the dark ages.  I know there is good, But it is Being chocked By all the Cynical, Money grubbing bastards on earth, And the worst part is, If you, Me, WE had all this money, the  same money the rich Do? we would be exactly LIKE the Rich.

                                          such edgy
       so politic
                             wow

[Tyler66]

threads full of uninformed teenagers are always good for a laugh

Instead of saying "lolkids", you can contribute by saying your stance on the subject or objecting to someone elses statement.

while the government is loving SHUT DOWN.

You know the government reopened, right?

[Jairo]

God Dammnit, I hate this nation So much. I practically hate ALL nations right now, All of them are stuff, All of them are terrible, Humanity should just do a Global revolution, Or Just go back to the dark ages.  I know there is good, But it is Being chocked By all the Cynical, Money grubbing bastards on earth, And the worst part is, If you, Me, WE had all this money, the  same money the rich Do? we would be exactly LIKE the Rich.

was this supposed to make sense

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Instead of saying "lolkids", you can contribute by saying your stance on the subject or objecting to someone elses statement.

that's the thing, (likely) nobody here has studied government and therefore all opinions in this thread are meaningless

was this supposed to make sense

i imagine that was the intention, at least, but it seemed to have died in utero
the godawful writing frankly just outright prevented me from even reading it

[Nickelob Ultra]

that's the thing, (likely) nobody here has studied government and therefore all opinions in this thread are meaningless

wow if only we had gotten a masters in teaching gov't classes like you did mr professor teacher

[Wispfire]

You know the government reopened, right?

Woops, didn't notice the "is." Musta got caught up in the moment.

[Niven]

that's the thing, (likely) nobody here has studied government and therefore all opinions in this thread are meaningless
i imagine that was the intention, at least, but it seemed to have died in utero
the godawful writing frankly just outright prevented me from even reading it

i've taken ap us government in 9th grade

[Tyler66]

that's the thing, (likely) nobody here has studied government and therefore all opinions in this thread are meaningless

Then say something meaningful and maybe you can turn this discussion around and educate these clearly uneducated... teenagers.
Because hey, you are a teacher as you claim to be. This should be no problem for you.