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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Well, think of it this way:
Someone asks to borrow $1 million from you. It's most of what you have, but you do it. A few weeks later, the guy tells you he'll never be able to pay you back. You go bankrupt as a result.
A hundred years later, your great-great-great-whatever grandson receives a visitor. He's here to pay back the million, plus interest. It will be good for your descendant, but it doesn't help you any.
The French at the time of the Revolutionary War had no conception that one day they'd be conquered and would need US help to get out of it; America was a pipsqueak little country at the time.
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Well if France was so impoverished by what the US owed them were did Napoleon get the money to go and conquer the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, the Low Countries and half of Germany, and then try and conquer Russia, Egypt and India?