Getting Creative About US Debt

The US debt ceiling must be raised before July 8 or the US government will default, triggering a collapse of the dollar, the US economy and finally the US itself. Some fairly interesting ideas are being floated:

"Some lawmakers have called for legislation to force the Treasury to first pay interest on U.S. bonds before other obligations, such as unemployment benefits and Social Security and Medicare payments, as a way to stave off a debt default."

OR

"They have also asked Treasury whether financial assets such as the country's gold reserves or the government's portfolio of student loans could be sold to avoid raising the debt ceiling."

 C'mon guys! You have to get more creative than that.

How about rounding up all attractive women under age 30 and selling them to the Chinese and Arabs? The Chinese need women. And rich oil sheiks love harems.

We could sell all of our children as slaves in foreign nations. Imagine the novelty of having an American child to kick around, rape, starve and so-forth.

How about making snuff films of killing our parents and grandparents and selling them abroad? Make them personal, say Tony smothers his old dad with a US flag then beats his mom to death with a bible. That would sell!

Why not lease the US military? Dictators would pay top dollar for carriers, pilots and experienced ground troops. If we played it right we could lease to, say, North and South Korea. Our guys could fight each other like Roman legions and we could make money from both sides.

If things got really bad, we could sell all of our women as slaves and become the world's first Queer State. We could even offer Queer Tourism, where, say, the Taliban could come for some fudgepacking R&R.

Americans have always been creative, we just need to think outside the box to beat this bankruptcy thingie.