Originally Posted By: cupo
The $10trillion debt won't seem so bad once inflation really gets cranked up.


You are right about that. The $4 trillion Regan ran up in the 80's really is only costing us 40 cents on the dollar in todays dollars. Inflation will really help us repay that debt faster when the dollar is worth 1/10 the value of the Euro or Yen. When our money has to have a few more zeros added to each denomination to buy anything our current $9.5 trillion won't seem like so much.

Parker is right in that no candidate will touch any of those things. They are "third rail" issues that you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. They may talk around the subjects but no one will give any specifics. That would be political suicide.
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