Presumably in year five when they have to pay the piper, they are a little more settled.

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At some point, borrowers must pay the piper and the zero hour appears to be fast approaching.

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Nobody wants to die--but what if you could pay the piper with cash, instead of your mortal soul?

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We've created great wealth, but we are looking at it at a time when you have to pay the piper.

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Artists in litigation with companies that felt they could lift songs and not have to pay the piper is not really new.

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Livni and Sharon could ignore their previous commitments because when the time came to pay the piper, they had already destroyed their opponents.

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It is time to pay the piper, and I, for one, have little interest in using my taxpayer dollars to cushion the blow.

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Now we have to pay the piper for treating our citizens in need properly, the ones who have always worked and paid their way and have been laid low by circumstances beyond their control and have further suffered because their fellow citizens now call them leeches and drains on society?

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To pay for disasters like the Piper Alpha oil-rig fire of 1988, and then 1989's Exxon Valdez shipwreck off Alaska, unprecedented wads of money were now required from the names' own pockets.

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Eventually the piper has to be paid, and inflation is the very high price we all pay.

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