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Kirt Blattenberger

Post subject: IEEE on Savings

Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:48 pm

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Greetings:

I found the issue of personal savings in the U.S. a strange topic for the IEEE to be addressing. I also find it stupid that alarms are sounded all the time about savings rates, while the government has been taxing the interest earned on savings for the last umpteen years. :roll:

Savings Woes — The Worst Since 1933
http://www.todaysengineer.org/2006/Apr/savings.asp

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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:56 am

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Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:47 am
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This should be addressed to the US Government!! We now have a collective credit card balance of:
$8,398,706,863,427.55 (at the time of this post - it is updated every second) and increasing at a rate of $2.44 BILLION per day!! http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

If the Government is in debt up to its eyeballs and that is OK, why shouldn't it be OK for the average citizen as well? :roll:

Posted 11/12/2012