[Talk] Flag waving and patriotism

[Terry Richards]

liz@argate.net wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Steven Benmosh wrote:
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>> And since when does flying the flag makes one a patriot? It makes one 
>> show himself off as a patriot, maybe...
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> Matthew 6:5-6: "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the 
> hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and 
> in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men....when 
> thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, 
> pray to thy Father which is in secret...."
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> (Just happened to have that at hand in a brief against prayer at 
> official government events.)


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    The United States is Insolvent <http://drmss.com/wordpress/?p=17>

December 17th, 2006

Prepare to be shocked.

The US is insolvent. There is simply no way for our national bills to be 
paid under current levels of taxation and promised benefits. Our 
combined federal deficits now total more than 400% of GDP.

That is the conclusion of a recent Treasury/OMB report entitled 
/Financial Report of the United States Government/ 
<http://fms.treas.gov/fr/06frusg/06frusg.pdf> that was quietly slipped 
out on a Friday (12/15/06), deep in the holiday season, with little 
fanfare. Sometimes I wonder why the Treasury Department doesn’t just pay 
somebody to come in at 4:30 am Christmas morning to release the report. 
Additionally, I’ve yet to read a single account of this report in any of 
the major news media outlets but that is another matter.

But, hey, I understand. A report is this bad requires all the muffling 
it can get.

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