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Zimbabwe Is Down
to Its Last $217
Atlantic, by Adam Clark Estes
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Posted By:jackson, 1/30/2013 9:13:05 AM
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| There are cash-strapped governments and there are broke governments. And then there´s Zimbabwe, which, after paying last week´s government salaries, has just $217 left in the bank. No, we didn´t forget any zeroes to the end of that figure. Zimbabwe, the country that´s home to some of the world´s largest plutonium and diamond reserves, literally has the same financial standing as a 14-year-old girl after a really good birthday party. The country´s finance minister admitted as much in a press conference on Tuesday. "Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 [left] in government coffers,"
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$217? Yikes! Can´t they borrow? Call the Chinese! Time to "invest" in firefighters, teachers, and community organizers.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/30/2013 9:20:53 AM (No. 9148146)
They sure showed Whitey.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp, 1/30/2013 9:26:27 AM (No. 9148162)
That´s nothing. The USA has
-$16,000,000,000,000 (negative 16 Trillion dollars) in it´s coffers. (Give or take a few hundred billion.)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JimS, 1/30/2013 9:27:41 AM (No. 9148167)
Coming soon to a country near you!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 1/30/2013 9:28:40 AM (No. 9148170)
By the end of 2016 the USA will be envious of Zimbabwe.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lwgii, 1/30/2013 9:36:29 AM (No. 9148184)
#2 beat me to it. Said another way, we were broke $16 thousand billion dollars ago. That makes Zimbabwe seem downright fiscally stable, doesn´t it?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Redneck In NY, 1/30/2013 9:39:48 AM (No. 9148192)
At least they have a positive number in their ledger. Unlike ours which is so far in the red it defies reality.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
steveracer, 1/30/2013 9:46:51 AM (No. 9148210)
Have they thought about raising taxes? It works everywhere it is tried.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BuckeyeRon, 1/30/2013 9:51:53 AM (No. 9148218)
Bull...if I want news/analysis on Zimbabwe I won’t look to get it from some Harvard grad with the mindset of a 5 year old whose working experience includes spins pieces for the Huffington Post...#1, know that the smart money is simply waiting out old man Mugabe, and that Zim will explode once he’s off the scene...take a look at their little stock market and note the companies listed in this report are majors who are playing the waiting game...
Zimbabwe: ZSE Rally Continues
http://allafrica.com/stories/201301300359.html
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/30/2013 9:57:49 AM (No. 9148238)
At least they are in the positive...unlike AmeriKa and other countries that subscribe to the moronic notion that spending more helps.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 1/30/2013 9:59:00 AM (No. 9148242)
Anyone remember the old Jimmy Hatlo newspaper comic strip entitled "They´ll Do It Every Time"?
"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones."
Robert Mugabe
President
The Republic of Zimbabwe
P.S.
Bobby´s current net worth is estimated at over $10,000,000.00.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 1/30/2013 10:06:23 AM (No. 9148264)
That´s a lot more than Obama has left us with...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 1/30/2013 10:12:39 AM (No. 9148277)
They just need more "quantitative easing".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Grady, 1/30/2013 10:15:11 AM (No. 9148286)
Knowing Zimbabwe´s hatred towards Whites and their
ability to take a prosperous country into depression,
Leads me to believe that Robert Mugabe is Obama´s Father.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRodLincoln, 1/30/2013 10:28:23 AM (No. 9148321)
Obama take note, this Mugabe guy is really good at destroying his country.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/30/2013 10:45:30 AM (No. 9148367)
Courtesy of the Socialist Hell unleashed on us through LoFo Takers´ votes, this is not an outlandish prospect for the US of A. Maybe there is a chance in 2014 to set it right. Maybe...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 1/30/2013 11:14:30 AM (No. 9148469)
0bama=Mugabe
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
philly_patriot, 1/30/2013 11:33:35 AM (No. 9148527)
The wages of Afrocentric Marxist Racism.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/30/2013 12:05:06 PM (No. 9148593)
Reader can easily substitute Obama for Mugabe in article:
"It´s unclear how the US / Zimbabwean government is going to get itself out this fiscal mess, but whatever it does, it needs to do it quickly.... Its government is also dealing with brand new allegations that government officials have been running a corruption ring around the country´s ´green jobs´ / diamond mines. The country obviously desperately needs a major change. "But action against corruption probably won’t come until the end of Obama´s / Mugabe´s reign, and a new constitution .... might set up the skeet shooting dictator / aging autocrat for another term in power," ...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 1/30/2013 12:46:42 PM (No. 9148692)
and we have all seen that e mail tour of Mugabe´s palatial home rivalling L´Hermitage for lavish excess, a real
tinpot dictator´s idea of values.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
gazelam, 1/30/2013 1:49:31 PM (No. 9148792)
Poster changed "platinum" to "plutonium" - at least that´s the way the article now reads at the link. Plutonium is not mined, it´s manufactured in reactors as discovered by Glenn Seaborg.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
woodsman, 1/30/2013 1:50:26 PM (No. 9148794)
Perhaps they need to spend more
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
woodsman, 1/30/2013 2:30:42 PM (No. 9148875)
Kenyazian?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/30/2013 2:58:06 PM (No. 9148929)
Just print some more, silly. Send Professor Krugman and his disciple, Helicopter Ben, over there to show these folks how its done.
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