“Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security.”

It means the US can’t borrow with ‘exorbitant privilege’ anymore.

And it means the US Treasury market is set for an out-of-control interest rate spiral.

No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

Essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency.

The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally.

In all fairness, you should point out the difference.

For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff.

The real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

Of a young hermit, an old devil.

They feel they have to look after their image.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.