> i would bet my shirt that it will be social security and pensions that get the shaft first in any case the shaft has a tip that grows. ok now joe q. public can't afford to fill gas in his beater because he has to choose between driving and food but this automatically means that all the businesses that depend on pensioneer dollars, from bingo halls to cat food makers to haidressers suffer catastrophic losses and the layoffs start hitting, just at a time when the government desperately needs revenue and needs less people on public assistance.  the music needs to keep playing, to borrow a line from margin call.
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