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Quotes About Bankrupt

Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future.
~ Reince Priebus
Ingenious, really: you pour junk-raised cash into a hostile takeover and sell the debt to your savings and loan, which the public ultimately must bail out. Then you mortgage the company to the hilt to pay off the funny money, loot the pension fund, run through the reserves, sell off everything of value, and dispose of the remaining bankrupt husk for whatever you can get. Magic! Loot that pays you extra to plunder it.
~ Richard Powers
The test accident almost bankrupted Boeing,
~ David Schneider
Most governments in western countries are basically bankrupt. They won't be able to guarantee you a safe retirement like your parents might be enjoying right now.
~ David Schneider
As soon as Congress does whatever it's going to do, and the U.S. doesn't go bankrupt, I think the market opens back up again.
~ David Topper
If God charged us for every tear He shed for us, the world would be bankrupt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
History also shows that salaries never go back to an old level. All this reminds me of the old commentary that goes, 'When a man with money meets up with a man of experience, the man with experience usually ends up with the money and the man with the money ends up with experience.' I have no intention of going bankrupt signing wealthy players.
~ Jeff Pearlman
And the scariest part is that if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, "Gradually and then suddenly." When someone asks how I lost my mind, that is all I can say too.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Our current energy policy is bankrupt.
~ Jim Costa
We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.
~ Bill McKibben
The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.
~ Paul Ryan
I believe that if we do not prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, it will go bankrupt. And that will be bad for everybody. We have to tackle our debt crisis. We have to tackle the drivers of our debt.
~ Paul Ryan
It's so simple," she says. "So obvious. Exponential growth inside a finite system leads to collapse. But people don't see it. So the authority of people is bankrupt.
~ Richard Powers
The word "psychosomatic" has been around long enough to be generally understood; unfortunately, it is another semantic spook. The concept of "psyche" or "soul" was borrowed from the theologians, who, being bankrupt, are in no position to lend anything.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Things are sold for less than it costs to make them. ... lots of business do go bankrupt. The ones that don't haven't actually sold their thing for more than it costs to make. They've just ignored some of their costs. ... they shove some of their production costs off their books.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
~ Daniel Berrigan
Yet the Soviet elite, and the Communist regimes through most of eastern Europe (Romania and Serbia were the exceptions), chose not to use even a tiny fraction of this military power. When its members realised that Communism was bankrupt, they renounced force, admitted their failure, packed their suitcases and went home.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.
~ John C. Maxwell
Well then! it was the end; his ruin was complete. Even if he mended the cables and lit the fires, where would he find men? Another fortnight's strike and he would be bankrupt. And in this certainty of disaster he no longer felt any hatred of the Montsou bandits; he felt that all had a hand in it, that it was a general agelong fault. They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.
~ Émile Zola
When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!
~ Maripol
That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
~ Harry Shearer
I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.
~ Steve Eisman