“With $6.8 trillion on deposit in U.S. banks, do you think that our current federal government, the one so adept at manufacturing repeated crises, would hesitate for one moment before dipping into the private accounts of depositors if a U.S. bankruptcy were imminent? Well, with massive amounts of federal spending on tap that cannot be supported by current tax rates, it’s not exactly a stretch to think that a solvency crisis is headed our way … with the grabbing hands of the U.S. government reaching for the assets of hard-working Americans to bail it out.”
http://sovereign-investor.com/2013/04/03/could-a-government-cash-grab-happen-here/
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