Posted on 04/28/2007 2:32:45 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
Have you forgotten about our national sovereignty, our national independence, our property rights which have withered into dead straw. When the Real ID system is in place we will become subjects. Individually identifiable by our wealth, health, occupation, age, sex, annual income, travel habits, firearm possessions, attendance at public protests with a rating of probable resistance factors and every other catagory which society can be separated into.
We are looking at the death of a nation, standing around with our hands in our pockets moaning about the lack of performance of everyone else while refusing to look in the mirror.
Then there are those who continue to refuse to see the truth. Refusing to believe the obvious because it is an ugly sight.
When I look at the flag that’s what I want to see. Of course I went to private schools for six years where we stood up and said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. I know that I am warped and twisted.
Public schools used to teach the same things. I’ve been told by folks who can remember as far back as when that was true. All told, we’re a dying breed, those of us who remember that freedom did once exist in this country. Now we’re taught that those were the bad old days when folks like the Rosenburgs were lynched.
Sarbanes-Oxley, the unnecessary regulatory law on publicly-traded corporations that was passed in the wake of the Enron scandal.
Per the Fed, the volume of dollars in circulation has gone up at 6.3% over the last decade.
So I did overestimate (and I do apologize) - the 2001 DJ should be more like 8800.
I would not use the CPI for this calculation, it's been tweaked to keep Federal COLA's low and probably by now is determined only by the prices of hard drives, Chinese DVD players, and Beanie Babies.
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