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Worth mentioning: if you would have lived in India, hearing the same story about USA NASA Mars rover landing, you would have said: "Why are they spending time on this instead of fixing 14 trillion dollar debt?"

Just a matter of point of view.

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For those pedantic fools focusing on the "debt" part of your comment, replace that with poverty, NSA spying, unemployment, education, or any other perceived problem. The specific problem isn't the point.

...or health-care, gun violence, crime, housing (lack thereof) etc etc.

Why would they care about US government debt? Nothing about government debt is detrimental to the human condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%932002_Argentine_gre...

Even better, read entire wiki article. Can you make same statement again?

This is talking about the Argentinian government defaulting on their debt. That has literally nothing to do with US government accruing more debt.

So yes, I have no problem making that statement.

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