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from the edge of the fiscal cliff .....

from the edge of the fiscal cliff .....

getting a perspective …. 

·                 US Tax Revenues: $2,170,000,000,000

·                 US budget: $3,820,000,000,000

·                 New debt: $1,650,000,000,000

·                 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000

·                 Recent budget cuts: $38,500,000,000

now, let's remove 8 zeros & pretend it's a household budget: 

·                 Annual family income: $21,799

·                 Money the family spent: $38,200

·                 New debt on the credit card: $16,500

·                 Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710

·                 Total budget cuts so far: $385

Got It?

 

the eritrea conundrum...

As the world power structure is slowly losing its grip on decorum, pocket moneys and pomp while trying to be a pimp to capitalism, there is a small nation that is trying hard to deal with its poverty and its enemies...

By whatever means, the government of Eritrea (like the government of Afghanistan in the 1980s) is trying to go it alone using a form of "socialism" based on Einstein views of the world...

It's difficult though because every one wants to have their say about it. Washington is furious about the ruling "commies" who seem to venerate Catro while the Muslim extremist... well you what can happen next, though these have been chased out so Eritrea could be born...

We hear about Eritrea though the Fred Hollows Foundation... I met Fred in 1990 I think when he became "Australian of the year"...

Meanwhile we hear about a "coup" there and of "human trafficking... But it is always hard to know who is telling the truth and who is not... and how the situations are "managed" to suit the porkies...

I am informed that there was no coup in Eritra though it was reported by the Western Press... And the "human trafficking" is actually organised by the CIA that wants the "poor children out of there"... Hell is full of people with a heart of gold who have created crap.

Corroborating President Isaias Afwerki’s charge that human trafficking in Eritrea is  an “orchestrated, organized operation financed by the CIA,” President Barak Obama admitted publicly that the US is involved in human trafficking in Eritrea. Additionally, Wikileaks has also revealed the extent of US targeting the Eritrean youth. …

http://natna.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/eritrea-obama-says-cia-human-trafficking-as-pias-charged/

Yes no-one is allowed to be brainwashed with the perils of socialism, but everyone should be enticed and brainwashed to the eternal glory of capitalism... Between you and me and an Alice Spring sign post, when you are that poor, capitalism will suck you dry while giving you impossible dreams of godlen calf that someone else will eat, while socialism will give you a reason to live by sharing personal achievable dreams at your level...