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US Debt Ceiling - is this why Obama's trying to provoke Russia/China to WW3?
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Government likely to exhaust debt-ceiling options soon, Lew warns
"...As soon as March 14, according to the BPC’s analysis, the government could be within $5 billion of default — “even under a very optimistic scenario.” The BPC calculates that a typical day’s spending in March will be about $10 billion. As a result, the government could run out of funds “on or in the days before March 14.”
About the same time, Treasury will be required to make sizable payments to Medicare providers and bondholders, and write big checks to active-duty soldiers, veterans and Social Security recipients. For instance, $26 billion in Social Security checks is set to go out March 3, followed by an additional $12 billion on March 12."
[link to www.washingtonpost.com]
On Wednesday Obama deliberately provoked the Chinese, telling the Japanese they would protect them against any Chinese attempt to take their disputed islands. Today he's threatened Russia over Ukraine, at the same time moving US troops into Poland...
Looking for a major war to divert from the financial armageddon that's coming?
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