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Originally Posted by Richard
That article came out last summer.
The MSM was all over it in August.
Found any repercussions in your searches?
And so it goes...
Richard 
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No sir, of the few this seems to be about the gist of it here:
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By John Detrixhe - Apr 5, 2012 5:50 PM ET
Egan-Jones Ratings Co. cut the U.S. credit rating one step to AA, the second downgrade in nine months and two levels below its highest grade, with a negative outlook citing the nation’s increasing debt burden.
U.S. debt has increased to 100 percent of gross domestic product, while debt climbed 23.6 percent from 2008 to 2010, the credit-rating firm said in a statement today. Egan-Jones lowered the U.S. grade to AA+ in a July. Treasuries have gained 4.6 percent since the company first lowered the U.S. rating, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data.
The downgrade was based on “the increasing debt load coupled with the fact that there has been no tangible progress in addressing the country’s growing debt to GDP” ratio, Sean Egan, president of Egan-Jones in Haverford, Pennsylvania, said today in a telephone interview. “Unfortunately, the debt is growing fairly rapidly while the GDP is not.”
Standard & Poor’s cut the U.S. grade by one step to AA+ on Aug. 5 and has a negative outlook on the country’s debt. Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings assign the nation their top Aaa and AAA ratings respectively and also have negative outlooks.
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Or is that your point... Nothing?
What I should have said was I wonder about the repercussions to those of us who are out here footing the bill for the spending spree of the last 4 years. The article posted above hints that the stock markets will likely see the effects. Will there be more?