Bernie Sanders puts Social Security challenge to Hillary Clinton

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If you don't think you can do it go write on a piece of paper "I, [state your name] promise to pay dismal $100,000 on 6/1/2016" and we'll see if a court will consider it a valid obligation. I can get a lawyer to dress it up with lots of legalese if you like.

You'd be surprised dismal by what courts will consider valid obligations. Stick to your day job.

My day job deals exactly with this sort of thing.

You want to sign up for a note too?

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What's sad is people here might actually think you are not making a ridiculous argument. I can issue a note indebting myself for whatever purpose I want. So can you. So can anyone. So can congress.

If you don't think you can do it go write on a piece of paper "I, [state your name] promise to pay dismal $100,000 on 6/1/2016" and we'll see if a court will consider it a valid obligation. I can get a lawyer to dress it up with lots of legalese if you like.

Now do one with a bond! :excited:

Note, bond, what's is the difference?

 

[fromderinside]

It's not the bond or note. Its the verified bloodied fingerprints of the parties on the paper that makes the legal day.

 

[KeepTalking]

Congress meeting tomorrow and passing a law. That's not going to happen, Congress doesn't pass laws these days.

The dollar amount you provided is ridiculous.

Your description of bonds as "magick".

Each one of these things is stupid, combined, they are idiotic.

And if you feel the correct answer is not among those provided feel free to offer whatever answer you like.

I did just that.

It's a hypothetical with some colorful language. That does not make it "idiotic". The question is entirely serious and I believe the correct answer is, in fact there.

Spoiler: I think it's B.

If you don't agree, perhaps you could put as much effort into explaining why it isn't B as you did in critiquing the question?

Well, another problem is that it isn't even really a question, hypothetical or otherwise. It is an idiotic scenario, followed by two options for us after the scenario is obtained. The scenario will never be obtained, so we will never come to face the options. Even given that, one of the options is bullshit, and the other stupid. I will leave it up to the reader to determine which option is which.

If you have an actual question to ask, go ahead and ask it. But I doubt that I am the person to answer. I don't know nearly as much about financials as people like Achoholic Actuary, or Ksen, so once you get around to asking a legitimate question, I will leave it up to them to answer.

I did ask an actual question I believe to be legitimate.

Congratulations! No one else does.

If you want to assert it's idiotic the burden is on you to describe what is idiotic about it.

I have already done that, please pay attention.

A burden you seem to be failing.

Incorrect.

Why couldn't Congress issue a metric butt-ton of these special securities to the Social Security trust fund?

Because the SS trust fund does not have a metric butt-ton of surplus to buy them.

I have no reason to believe it could not.

And I have no reason to believe that anything you believe matters.