Pesky National Debt Wiped Out by Faux Coup
Should this ever actually happen, The Onion gets credit for its prescient mock-up of a hostile takeover of the American government by a militant, yet strangely familiar, enemy organization bent on completely obliterating the ever-increasing US debt.Should this ever actually happen, The Onion gets credit for its prescient mock-up of a hostile takeover of the American government by a militant, yet strangely familiar, enemy organization bent on … completely obliterating the ever-increasing U.S. debt.
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