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re: What Actually Happens Oct. 17th

Posted on 10/8/13 at 3:27 pm to
Posted by BennyAndTheInkJets
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Posted on 10/8/13 at 3:27 pm to
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The Treasury makes 80 million payments a month, and did not design its system with prioritization in mind, and it lacks the authority to go and delete pending payments from the system without Congress telling it to. That means NSF.


As indicated above, the operational ease to pay debt payments versus all the other payments creates a pseudo-prioritization simply from it being the lowest hanging fruit and easiest to handle. It's going to suck for whoever is working the payment systems at the Treasury to manually handle all of this, that is a given, but debt servicing will be the least of that poor bastard's headaches.
Posted by SpidermanTUba
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Member since May 2004
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Posted on 10/8/13 at 4:36 pm to
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It's going to suck for whoever is working the payment systems at the Treasury to manually handle all of this, that is a given, but debt servicing will be the least of that poor bastard's headaches.



I don't think it can be manually handled. That would be like asking the Census bureau to do its job without a computer. Its just not possible.

Do you realize how many checks that is? 80 million. ONE is late and investors go ape-shite.
This post was edited on 10/8/13 at 4:37 pm
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