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You are completely skipping over the basics. If someone doesn't pay then someone else doesn't get paid. You merely shifted the problem to somewhere else. That somewhere else is usually something extremely critical such as the banking system.

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Last time, there was a big search for bag holders. Guess who the bag holders were?

You and me and Fed.gov. It fucking sucks.

This doesn't make sense to me at all. If you pause transactions temporarily and then resume them later once we've regained some stability, I don't understand how you see your points as being true? Who isn't getting paid? Where is the problem being shifted to? (Are you thinking the courts? That isn't being proposed, it is only mentioned as an illustration that that which is "impossible", is actually fairly routine, the difference is that in this case it would be done at massive scale.

Does this increase risk? I would think so, but I think people should have an obligation to provide at least some evidence or logical reasoning as to why we must accept the particular flavor of corporate socialism we practice. If an idea is sound, it should be defensible.

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