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Wait, wait: "Unless the U.S. government fixes the budget, nation's CREDIT CARD debt will topple 15 trillion by Christmas 2011." Is this meaning US consumer cre
by maguay 15y ago
Wait, wait: "Unless the U.S. government fixes the budget, nation's CREDIT CARD debt will topple 15 trillion by Christmas 2011."
Is this meaning US consumer credit card debt? If so, that's hardly the US government budget's fault. That one is odd at best.
- maguay 15y agoAlso: "If you like this, support it by checking out the ads on top right." Right. And it's against Adsense terms to ask people to click your ads. What a mess.
- roel_v 15y agoI understood that as a style figure meaning 'the US government is using borrowed money, like a credit card'. I think it's quite disingenuous. (maybe I'm wrong - I'd do a first-order validation of the idea by dividing 15 trillion by the amount of us citizens, but I don't quite know now many zeroes there are in 15 trillion and if it's effected by false friends like 'billion' (meaning: 'billion' in English has a different amount of zeroes as the homophones in other languages)).
- eru 15y agoAnd British English used to use different conventions from American English, too.