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Our Founder's Escape Clause
I'm amazed that Iceland got to use something like it.
Makes you wonder when a majority here will wake up.


"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..." - U.S. Declaration of Independence

It's particularly bizarre given how much attention the US media gave to that hopeless Occupy Wall Street thing.

Americans have little interest in world affairs. Most would rather watch Dancing with the Stars.

It was discussed earlier here. We have a Icelandic Daughter-in-law I followed that story as long as it lasted. So the controversy of making whole the Dutch an English Pensioner whole for loses on their investments due to bubble burst in Iceland was followed in several forums. It was a Non-story at that time also, Iceland is smaller than Cypress.