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As I said above, I don't know. Only thing I know for sure is that people talk about money as if it's a real thing, and not a symbol. Do you have enough capable personnel and tools to provide a reasonable level of health to all your people? How many bullets is enough to defend the nation...

Is that a problem? In what way has it harmed you or anybody you know?

Nations declare war on public debt and deficits about once a week. Declarations are easy. Wars are hard. Money is just dirty paper. Or increasingly, a few microseconds of computer code. The first thing we need to do is figure out what the real problem is.

Well, yes. It would also mean you no longer live in a country that's even roughly a democracy. But I get the feeling you'd like that.

Actually, that can apply to any form of government. There's one way in which democracy is the worst form of government. . . ultimately, you have no one to blame but yourselves.

Not the first time a con man has hoodwinked lots of people by playing to their desires.

I honestly don't know. The U.S. debt is somewhere north of 30 trillion, and we're not even pretending we're trying to quit adding to it, much less pay it off, anymore. Money is, and has always been, a symbol. It may be that the willingness of various entities to continue lending money to the...

It will! Picture the smashed wreckage at the bottom of a cliff. That's balanced.

What reason is that? Because you're so naive you think that makes a difference?

Yep. There was a movie called "Enemy of the State" with Will Smith as a guy who the gol-dang gummint was tracking with computers, Big Data, satellites, and what-have-you. I worked at a Sooper Seekrit Spy Agency at the time, and a couple of people asked me if that was really possible. I...

Roger-dodger, you old codger!

Probably to honor all those fine people who gave their all for the Reich.

Ya think?

Do note the difference between "regrettably" and "regretfully."

Cuz they're all GROOMERS! Run and hide!

THAT is a candidate for Dumbest Headline Ever Written.

So. . . the weak spider's web is killing umpty-zillion Gazans?

Forget to shout "He's coming right for us!" Tex?

David Hume could out-consume Schoepenhauer and Schlagel --Monty Python, The Philosophers Song

History began before 2005. Israel has occupied Gaza a few times.