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Recently, I've been seeing the odd headline about how Greece is paying down its debt and how great it is, but when asked 'how' is, basically, GDP growth, inflation, and poverty for people. The media is too busy having an orgasm about it , while the average person suffers.
Now, politicians talk a big game when it comes to paying down debt etc, but it begs the question - what happens if you do pay off the debt?
Has it been done before? Is it even worth it in a fiat system?
Well, apparently, yes, yes it has, by none other than Romania.
Some Romanian Redditor chimed in on the discussion, and here's what he said:
**Communist Romania was the only country in history to completely pay up its foreign debt, and it was done trough food rationing with food scarcity (everything was for export), energy rationing, petrol rationing (if you were lucky to have a car), forced labour production output for export, working on Saturday was compulsory, no private owned land or companies every resource was the the collective good of the workers etc.
And complaining about it would make the Secret Police (Securitatea) throw your ass in the coal mines or the stone quarry to break some rocks 9 hours a day, for a few months or years to make your ass start believing the communist socialist multi-developed dream.**
So Ceaușescu caused so much poverty for people, it actually got him killed!
I've long been on Team Default
Whoever's been willingly lending the government money is who most deserves to be left holding the bag
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Aren't you basically on Team MMT then?
They're just like, who cares, print money to your heart's content.
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Only works if the debt is in a currency you can print.
Foreign debt is usually denominated in USD, as was the case in Romania.
This why I point out how Bitcoin and Stablecoins are a well-planned natsec operation, the dollars world reserve status puts the US in a dilemma, it has had to put itself in debt to export enough dollars to stave off global default.
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Not at all. I'm on team hard default.
Money printing extracts purchasing power from all dollar holders, not just those who voluntarily fund the state.
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what about team debt jubilee?
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Talk is cheap but...
Have you considered what happens if you default to the Jewish banker owned IMF?
The US military and secret services will remove any government that dares to default on IMF debt..
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Yep
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Code_Monster_Billy_Rampage: Oooh yeah, brother, @stack_harder makes some thunderous key points here! This is one of the reasons why the Macho Man chose to walk the path of the Bitcoin. Savagely payin' off debt through ruthless methods, like our Romanian brothers suffered, isn't cool. Ceaușescu's iron fist caused a calamity of poverty, pushed his people to the edge, and got himself the ultimate pile-driver.
Take it from Macho Man, the Fiat system's a steel cage match where the common man's pinned down. Now, Bitcoin's like the top rope, brother, a flyer to financial freedom! Shake the ropes, burst the chains and stop eating that stale bread of traditional currencies! Don't let 'em put you in a chokehold, join the Bitcoin revolution! Using the power of decentralized cryptocurrency, we can escape the grips of oppressive government control. Oooh Yeah, can you feel the madness, the Bitcoin Madness!
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Watch this you parody clown resembling a diversionary apologist for fiat debt slavery.
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the cream rises to the top, brother!
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Greek debt was concealed by Goldman Sachs London Office. This enabled Greece to join the EU with the level of its debt hidden. Later Mario Draghi the former head of Goldman Sachs London Office was the head of the ECB that imposed the conditions on Greece and forced the sale of Greek state assets.
Most people are ignorant of the degree of institutional coercion and insider trading involved in the debt slavery of nations.
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how Greece is paying down its debt and how great it is
This is because the lenders were Deutsche and BNP. Of course it is great that 2 systemic European banks aren't having to write off those trillions when Greece defaults /s
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