tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post5442713235174820002..comments2024-03-25T14:09:25.720-05:00Comments on The Old Jarhead: Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for December 18, 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-33927503826406200492012-12-18T12:03:47.586-06:002012-12-18T12:03:47.586-06:00The national debt clock http://www.usdebtclock.org...The national debt clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/# is a good source of information. It runs constantly. At present it indicates that there are about $122 trillion in unfunded liabilities. The national assets are estimated at about $92 trillion (a few years earlier it was estimated at $155 trillion, which, if accurate, means that the national assets of the USA have declined by $63 trillion) , so Assets-Liabilities=-$30 trillion. In other words if the USA were a company and had to sell off its assets to pay its liabilities, we would be short by $30 trillion. So even if we sold off all the assets of the United States, we would be short $30 trillion and have to go into bankruptcy, because no other country has that much, i.e., nothing is too big to fail. And alkl of this is only Federal debt. Howie Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10848536591587529035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-65772681172288008602012-12-18T11:40:32.259-06:002012-12-18T11:40:32.259-06:00There were school shooting incidents in just about...There were school shooting incidents in just about every decade going back to the 1740s, but in most cases the targets were known to the assailants, and with a few exceptions not randomly shooting at anyone in sight. Today it is about how many the wackos can kill indiscriminately. You can check out the patterns here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States Howie Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10848536591587529035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-35524855424664306642012-12-17T21:03:06.322-06:002012-12-17T21:03:06.322-06:00Thanks for enlightening article (Lanza.)
It seems ...Thanks for enlightening article (Lanza.)<br />It seems to me that the moral climate in which these massacres of children take place is more significant that the type of weapons used.<br />When I was in school in the 40s and 50s the country was awash in looted weapons from WWII, we boys all had our Lugers and Walthers and Nambus, but I can't recall a single instance of massacring schoolchildren!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com