Hooray! World War I Is Now Over! USA! USA! USA!
Germany is finally paying off the last of its reparations for World War I, so we can now close that chapter of world history with a bitchin' victory party . Yes! We did it! Those Krauts paid out!
The principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, John Maynard Keynes, resigned in June 1919 in protest at the scale of the demands.
"Germany will not be able to formulate correct policy if it cannot finance itself,' he warned.
Haha, GAY. Like that's going to happen. So what do you say, boys? Now that we've won the war, how about going for a World War Two ? That Germany still has some sport in them, eh? Should be an invigorating experience. [ Telegraph ]
The repo-man that collected that debt must have some monster kahunas.
The Iraq/Afghanistan adventure will also take about 90 years to pay down.