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"With the sorts of people running the show, we demonstrated that we were cavalier enough to nearly get to a point where we couldn't pay our bills." s/couldn't/
by sixtofour 15y ago
"With the sorts of people running the show, we demonstrated that we were cavalier enough to nearly get to a point where we couldn't pay our bills."
s/couldn't/wouldn't
Our ability to pay our bills at present was never in question. The issue was whether we would merely decide not to pay. That induces a certain queasiness in the upper deck cabins on the ship of state.
- mgkimsal 15y agoMy understanding is that we wouldn't be able to pay 100% of all our obligations pretty soon after that. Yes, we could pay bond holders, at the expense of other obligations. I may have been misinformed, but that was my takeaway.