US Owing Trillions

It took the US over 10 years to get into this type of debt and it will take it at least that much time to get out of it. It started with an unfunded $2-4 trillion dollar war in Iraq. Then came the banking crisis as bankers went unregulated and started risky business practices. Then came along several national disasters and several other natural disasters in the world that we helped on.

Better to have done what Thomas Jefferson would have done - he would have, if he were president at the time, went to the United Nations about Iraq and left the country go the way of Tunisa, Egypt and Libya, as he believed for a true democracy to emerge, the revolution must come from within. For us, that is democracy on the cheap.

We are a government of the people, by the the people and for the people. So we only have ourselves to blame. We elect these people. We want everything from our government, the leaders are not real leaders, they are interested more in keeping their high paying jobs in government, democrat and republican alike. Pay the taxes and get out of this mess and watch who you vote for. Wars are very expensive and send a country spiraling deep into debt. And remember history. How many of you can remember the "guns and butter" of Johnson's "Great Society" and funding the Vietnam war at the same time and that fiasco. Those who don't understand history tend to repeat it. Pay up.

Hypatia

This is Hypatia who was a teacher and scientist at the Library of Alexandra in about 400AD. To me, she is the most important woman in history that is hardly ever talked about. All she wanted to do was research and teach. She was considered a pagan and pulled from her carriage while going to work, brutilized and killed by a Christian mob. The orders came from Cyril, the archbishop. He was made a saint.