What Would You Do With $2.3 Trillion?
I’m not looking to turn this into a political blog, but hot on the heels of my last post, it came to my attention that the US government is currently missing about $2.3 trillion dollars.
That is a number so large that my mind cannot comprehend it except in the abstract. We might as well be missing eleventy-seven kabajillion freaking dollars.
Fifth Amendment, oh how we’ll miss you
First habeas corpus went out the window, now we can kiss the fifth amendment goodbye too.
If I understand this correctly, the US Government can now block (or, effectively, take away) any property of any person, US citizen or otherwise, found to be doing anything that the government interprets as undermining the economic or political reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The language is all incredibly broad and open to interpretation, not to mention the fact that the Secretary of the Treasury serves at the whim of the President.
At this point, what wouldn’t be considered as “undermining the efforts to promote political reform in Iraq” by the current administration?
Stylish foil helmets
As usual, the government started the craze for it’s own evil schemes. Here is an empirical study on the effectiveness of aluminum foil helmets.
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