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hristov on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Governmen...

Of course this is OT because we are only talking about the public debt.

pessimizer on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

Unless you read the parent.

>We were merely reducing one kind of debt, namely debt held by the public. Total debt continued to increase.

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