Saturday, September 17, 2011

Greenspan states "cannot guarantee purchasing power" Senate Banking Comm...



Flashback - Alan Greenspan on the USS Government Ponzi - Runs 1 minute

Recently discovered clip from Congressional testimony in 2005. Hyperinflation Nation.

“I believe that we should maintain the principles of Social Security, but I think the existing structure is not working. Until we construct a system that creates the savings that are required to build the REAL assets, so that the retirees have REAL goods and services. We don’t have a system that is working. We have one that basically moves cash around and we can guarantee cash benefits as far out and whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power. Do we have the material goods and services that people will need to consume, not whether or not we pass some hurdle with respect to how legal financing occurs. Financing is a secondary issue and it is a means to create the REAL wealth, not an end into itself.”

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