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- From: whg@inel.gov (Bill Gray)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.200758.2675@inel.gov>
- Sender: news@inel.gov
- Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
- References: <1992Dec14.224955.7981@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec21.171659.18729@ttinews.tti.com> <1992Dec22.152116.8061@inel.gov> <1992Dec23.172147.24527@bnr.ca>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:07:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.172147.24527@bnr.ca>, bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec22.152116.8061@inel.gov> whg@inel.gov (Bill Gray) writes:
- |> >In article <1992Dec21.171659.18729@ttinews.tti.com>, kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
- |> >|> You think the national debt is bad? Look at the CONSUMER debt! It was
- |> >|> something like 12 trillion in 1990. ...
- |> >
- |> >Or roughly $50,000 for every man, woman, child and probably most of the
- |> >cats dogs and parakeets in the US of A. This seems to be on the very edge
- |> >of credibility. perhaps even round the bend.
- |> >
- |>
- |> I remember encountering a figure close to $12 trillion for the
- |> total private debt (including consumer and CORPORATE [caps added])
- |> ...
- It is certainly believable if corporate debt includes unfunded pension liabil-
- ities. Maybe even if it doesn't, in view of oustanding junk. It's hard to
- believe individual consumers could have run up this kind of debt, but then
- a credit card offer arrives in my junk mail every week. Perhaps I need to get
- busy and borrow my share :)
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