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He is a well respected retired diplomat with broad knowledge of U.S. relations with Taiwan, China, and the Middle East. However he is not someone I would turn to on the subject of this thread.

But you can't. The difference between you and your government was another of my major points. We must all stop equating government finances with our own private finances. In a non-obvious way, there is a connection between your finances and the governments. It's this: An individuals money...

Although it is not conventional debt, it does represent a Treasury liability. As such, every penny must be accounted for, and is.

Of course I am aware of this, although it is only peripherally related to what I posted on, which was the absurdity of a "debt ceiling." The servicing of Treasury issued securities is non-discretionary spending. I, and others too, have expressed the opinion that if interest payments become...

It's naturally very hard for anyone to accept that something they have heard all their lives is true could be false.

McConnell apparently thinks that the average American is pretty dumb when it comes to details of government money creation and financing. This is likely correct reasoning on his part from a purely political point of view. Certainly the average American doesn't understand that the U.S. has no...

Quote posted by easymon1: "Hundreds of thousands of Australian Workers Rise Up in Revolt Against New World Order Vaccine Mandates" Ah ha ha ha. That's ~2% of the Population of Australia. >2% of any large population is batshit crazy. The QAnon crazies in the U.S., or the folks looking for...

If I hadn't known you were mentally bonkers before this, I would know it now. It's not that any particular statement you make is necessarily wrong, it's the way you put disparate ideas and events together in your mind that makes me think there might be an important part of your brain missing...

This is consistent with, and may explain, my having no side-effects whatsoever from my first two jabs, but the booster, ~ 6 months later, produced a mild fever, and fatigue for ~12 hours. I went to bed early. The next day I was fine. I note how interesting this thread has become with time. We...

It is certain that the dollar will eventually lose its Reserve Status. It is only a matter of time. In the meantime our currency's reserve status gives us a tremendous advantage. We ought not to be too cavalier in our relations with other countries. We need friends, not enemies.

We need Grid "hardening" and infrastructure spending on the electrical grid. I am with you on that. The amounts proposed on combined infrastructure and BBB Bills over ten years are only <300B/yr. Minuscule, considering the return. Compare that with the 4T spent in Iraq (up to now, it's still...

The lack of logical thinking and statistical training in the average citizen is regrettable. Omicrom can infect both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. The evidence so far suggests that the infection causes milder symptoms/lower infection rate in the vaccinated. As a large percent of the...

Read these forums. The point of vaccinating the lower risk individuals has already been adequately described and discussed. Let's not lose sight of error in describing some cohort as "low risk". What seems like a low risk cohort today can become moderate, or higher, risk tomorrow. Many examples.

so long as U.S. population grows and/or its inflation corrected GDP grows, the so called "debt", which isn't, will have to grow to prevent deflation. It will grow for the foreseeable future. The annual debt ceiling side show has no purpose other than to intentionally perpetuate ignorance of...

unvaccinated, no doubt.

Nothing wrong with natural "immunity', jem, other than what you do to yourself and to society to acquire it.

OMG. What will it be next!

Was that the new "jem" . "Exlib's" "How many time have you been told..." is right out of "jem's" standard phrase book. Makes me suspicious. He was TrueJustice for awhile. Is he now exlib?

While this is true, so far as anyone knows, it is also true that those without compromised immune systems are "incubators for mutations". ( Your statement, although correct, would have been incorrect if it had included the word "only".) Your statement, however, is misleading, It overlooks...

Not to mention impact of the cis-Martian asteroids, should China decide to divert them from their orbits so they would impact Branson MO, the seat of American culture.