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Since America has such a national debt why don't we collect the money that these other countries owe us?

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That's like asking why we don't pay our OWN national debts. Every country has a debt to some other country, and that's what ultimately makes the worlds economy relatively stable. We can't collect debt from a country that has no money...

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