History and My Story

See 4:30 on this clip from last night’s Presidential Address to Congress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2X1syZgkM
 
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Many of my IRL friends and acquaintances are pointing out that the United States is printing more money and using it to help alleviate our economic crisis. Other democracies like the UK and Japan are doing the same. So, does this mean we will go the way of Zimbabwe or post-WWI Germany? Isn’t printing new [...]

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I’ve been so wrapped up in the “stimulus” that I haven’t been paying much attention to world news. Here are some updates from CNN:
Power Sharing:
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A Nation Suffering:
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Election Results–or non-results in Israel. Also, good information on Israeli politics:
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Those of you not inclined to search laboriously through the LOC website, check out Ron Paul (Republican Congressman from Texas and 2008 candidate) re-introducing legislature to abolish the Federal Reserve.  This is a position that strict constitutionalists have taken for decades, but in light of the current state of our economy the idea is getting new [...]

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Not alot of “transparancy” going on in Congress.  In an effort to get information “from the horse’s mouth” so-to-speak and not from second hand sources like the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, etc., I attempted to find the original bill on house.gov.  The bill that is currently being debated on and compromised on was originially [...]

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