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Warren Buffet's Brilliant Idea To Solve The U S Debt In Just Five Minutes

Jimmy Dozier @JimmyDeen (250) 25 Jul 24

Warren Buffets says he has a plan to solve the deficit problem in 5 minutes. When the debt reaches more than 3 percent of GDP all members of Congress will become ineligible to seek re-election. I was thinking something similar...

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We Owe God an Infinite Measure

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 8 Mar 21

"How often are you going to forgive others? Seven times?," asked Peter. Jesus replied, not "seven times, but seventy seven times." What He really meant was "countless or endless times". Many bible scholars hold the view that...

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January 8, 2020 - What happened on that day?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222623) • United States 8 Jan 20

Bubble Bath Day Argyle Day 1828 - The Democratic Party of the United States is formed. 1835 - The United States National Debt is zero for the only time. 1935 - Elvis Presley was born. He was an American singer and actor. The...

king of rock and roll

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Will US ever pay off $18,540,448,667,000 owe to other countries?

scheng1 @scheng1 (24649) • Singapore 13 Nov 15

US tops the list of countries with external debt. It comes without any surprise, but I still am surprised by the huge amount of external debt incurred. External debt means the country owes to other countries. As of 20 June...

Okay, What Do YOU Suggest?

adforme @adforme (2114) 16 Nov 12

The National Debt is continuing to go through the roof. Is there a way that you would handle this that included cutting programs, getting rid of programs or just seeing that the spending is appropriate? There is so much resistance...

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The biggest threat to Social Security and Medicare is the Growing National Debt

stealthy @stealthy (8181) • United States 4 Sep 12

The Democrats keep running ads that indicate they are the ones that will help Social Security and Medicare. But actually their spend, spend, spend type of government that has grown the National Debt from $10 trillion to over $15...

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By his own words Obama should not even be running for reelection.

stealthy @stealthy (8181) • United States 8 Aug 12

Obama should not be running for reelection. In 2009 he promised to cut the $10 trillion national debt in half by the end of his first term. If he didn't he said he shouldn't have a second term. Well not only has he failed to cut...

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After researching.... (U.S. based)

AidaLily @AidaLily (1450) • United States 17 Feb 12

You know I have had a few disagreements with people on politics. One of the most notable things would be the dislike of President Obama since they claimed that the word 'TRILLION' was only used to described the nation's debt when...

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Attack of the drones, 1/2 a Million $ a pop ... thanks DHS

EvanHunter @EvanHunter (4026) • United States 17 Dec 11

Straight out of the John Carpenter movie "They Live", life is now imitating art as one Texas county has gotten a new toy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXG3RMGkG94&feature=related Without getting bogged down in the debate of...

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The Current National Debt in SECONDS......hummm

coffeebreak @coffeebreak (17797) • United States 13 Apr 11

I just heard on the news...forget which one...that to try to comprehend the massive debt the country currently has, they broke it down into comparing it to seconds (in time) and for the current trillions we are in debt (forgot the...

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Business as usual?

Toadsticker @Toadsticker (246) • United States 14 Dec 10

With the new tax deal looking like it will be passed...Tell me what has changed in Washington? You have tax and spend liberals making a deal with lower tax and spend conservatives with no one seeming to care about the trillions...

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Lets talk about Bush's tax cuts

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 2 Aug 10

Some want to let them expire...some want them extended. While others only want some to expire and extend some others. What do you think? Personally when I really looked into them I realized those tax cuts were not only for the...

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No National Debt or World Peace?

Jess @JJ4Ever (4693) • United States 12 Apr 10

If you have a choice between no national debt or world peace, which would you choose and why? I think it's interesting how much debt the nations have accumulated. The government spends money it doesn't have, but yet, if we don't...

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What's the difference between a Ponzi scheme and the National debt?

pierone @pierone (1893) • Italy 9 Feb 10

As lot of you probably know, Bernard Madoff was sentenced to the maximum 150 years behind bars for his massive Ponzi scheme fraud. For the ones that don't know what a Ponzi scheme is, a Ponzi scheme basically is a fraudulent...

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Would you donate to Uncled Sam?

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 13 Nov 09

CNN did a story about how Uncle Sam, our federal government, can take "gifts" that are tax deductable to pay off the national debt and if Americans are thinking about making donations this year to do it to the federal...

federal gov wants us to pay it off

give them gifts

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what do you think about China goverment reduces cosmically USA national debt?

hankerChinese @hankerChinese (205) • China 17 Aug 09

what is next step by China goverment? Do u think about it?

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Think about the furture

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 22 Apr 09

I know most of America is against the bailouts. But it looks like more are coming. The asks are saying the may need another round and there is heavy talk in congress of a media bail out. So lets take stock. Our government has...

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how are we going to pay for it

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Obama wants to half national debt in four years?

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 23 Feb 09

Well that sounds all warm and fuzzy until you realize that with all the spending bills and bail outs, additional social programs, etc... that Obama has or is going to put in place in the next year, that he is going to DOUBLE the...

going to double it before he cuts it

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Where is all this money coming from?

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 16 Feb 09

Obama is about to sign a $790 billion dollar stimulus (waste) bill. On Wednesday he'll unveil how his administration will spend at least $50 billion of Wall Street rescue money to begin halting mortgage foreclosures. And sometime...

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Obama, Pelosi and Reid's "Stimulants" almost doubles the National Debt!

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 10 Feb 09

Right now the US National Debt is $10.7 Trillion dollars. According to the Federal Reserve, the "Stimulants" being passed and/or pledged so far will add up to $9.7 Trillion. That is $1,430 for every man, woman and child in the...

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