{"id":8267,"date":"2011-03-14T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8267"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:45:09","slug":"government-debt-u-s-treasuries-increasingly-look-like-wile-e-coyote-running-in-midair-they%e2%80%99ll-keep-selling-only-as-long-as-nobody-actually-looks-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/government-debt-u-s-treasuries-increasingly-look-like-wile-e-coyote-running-in-midair-they%e2%80%99ll-keep-selling-only-as-long-as-nobody-actually-looks-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Government debt: “U.S Treasuries increasingly look like Wile E. Coyote running in midair; they\u2019ll keep selling only as long as nobody actually looks down”"},"content":{"rendered":"

To borrow a phrase from Monty at Ace of Spades HQ<\/em>, here’s a hot steaming bolus of DOOM<\/a> for you, courtesy of Eric S. Raymond:<\/p>\n

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Insolvency is no longer a sporadic problem, it\u2019s become pervasive at all levels of government everywhere. This is why the recent brouhaha in Wisconsin was so surreal. The public-employee unions weren\u2019t just rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic, they were fighting to preserve their right to bore more holes in the hull.<\/p>\n

When these are the objective conditions, what point is there in arguing that the whole system is corrupt and that middle-class entitlements have to go on the scrap-heap along with every other big-government program? It\u2019s going to happen anyway soon enough. A year ago the U.S. government was only taking in a third of what it needed to cover annual outlays; today it\u2019s so much worse that individual monthly deficits are larger than the entire Bush administration\u2019s. The money\u2019s all gone. Our options are closing down to default or hyperinflation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to get ugly out there. A lot of old people are either not going to get their pensions and Social Security at all or get them in hyperinflated dollars that won\u2019t be worth anything. Anyone else dependent on government transfer payments will be similarly screwed. Urban poor, farmers, veterans, the list goes on. Imagine the backlash when that really hits — when it sinks in that the promises were lies, the bubble has popped, the Ponzi scheme is over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To borrow a phrase from Monty at Ace of Spades HQ, here’s a hot steaming bolus of DOOM for you, courtesy of Eric S. Raymond: Insolvency is no longer a sporadic problem, it\u2019s become pervasive at all levels of government everywhere. This is why the recent brouhaha in Wisconsin was so surreal. The public-employee unions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,13],"tags":[71,1235,544,545,118,392],"class_list":["post-8267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-usa","tag-debt","tag-esr","tag-pensions","tag-socialsecurity","tag-taxes","tag-unions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-29l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8268,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions\/8268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}