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According to C.I.A. report, we're broke.
CIA Factbook ^
| February 24, 2010
| Central Intelligence Agency
Posted on 02/24/2010 7:18:44 PM PST by optiguy
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To: muawiyah
Still broke if you use the gold we have our debt is way more.
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:10:01 PM PST
by
FromLori
(FromLori)
To: Vince Ferrer
Or start selling what is underneath the western states.
You mean stuff like Gold, Silver, Nickel, Uranium, low sulfur Coal, natural gas, and oil shale?
How about the renewable green resources on top of that government land like Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, Redwood, Pine, Yew, etc...
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:13:25 PM PST
by
Tailback
To: optiguy
Maybe the taxpayers should be apprised of CAFR: Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (read about in an earlier thread....)
which may prove that the fed AND state govt, with all their crocodile tears over no money, would be found to be keeping TWO sets of books; One-they invest with, the Second, they use to fool the taxpaying public into thinking theyre broke and need to raise taxes.
Tea Parties, Facebook, Twitter and the internet should be used as OUR tools NOW to spread this extortion of revenue from the public.
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:20:17 PM PST
by
Mortrey
(Impeach President Soros)
To: FromLori
Not "use it", just "revalue it". In fact, we have a bank in New York City that as much gold in the basement as does Fort Knox.
Back in the good old days they'd go in there and haul gold bullion around to "balance" international accounts.
The gold balanced the accounts; it's still in America.
Most people simply have no idea what a dominant position this country has when it comes to gold. We've got ours. We've got theirs too!
As Mel Brooks said "It's good to be the king".
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:20:44 PM PST
by
muawiyah
("Git Out The Way")
To: Tailback
No problem with those either.
To: optiguy
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:21:29 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: hiredhand; Travis McGee; SLB; Jeff Head
It’s official .............
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:22:07 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: optiguy
The only thing that I find shocking is that we need the CIA to tell us this.
Oh that’s not true: I also find it shocking that so many of our leaders don’t care....
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:42:03 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: optiguy
I wonder why it has the European Union as so high and then most of the countries in the EU are so low
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:43:28 PM PST
by
Jolla
To: optiguy
...and in other news, Obama has passed Jimmy Carter as the Worst.President. EVER. Film at eleven.
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:49:40 PM PST
by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: Clintonfatigued
Thank you CIA, now for todays weather with algore....
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posted on
02/24/2010 8:57:36 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Beware of the Socialist Government-Academia Grant Junkie-Rich "non-profit"-Liberal Media Complex)
To: flowerplough
How much will Japan give us for Alaska? (and Pearl Harbor?)
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posted on
02/24/2010 9:06:33 PM PST
by
campaignPete R-CT
("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
To: FromLori
Hey wait a minute... isn’t all that gold hollowed out and filled with peanut butter, or tungsten or somethin???
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posted on
02/24/2010 9:35:14 PM PST
by
JDoutrider
(Send G. Soros home! Hell isn't half full!)
To: optiguy
It doesn’t take a spy agency to figure this one out!
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posted on
02/24/2010 9:41:28 PM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: flowerplough
If we were Napoleonic France, say, wed be trying to sell Louisiana to the quickest bidder. If Obama sells Alaska back to the Russians to settle our debt, is Palin still a Natural Born citizen of the USA??? uh oh....
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posted on
02/24/2010 9:43:12 PM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Tailback
Mugabe, Obama’s hero, pretty much sold Zimbabwe to Libya for oil.
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posted on
02/24/2010 10:12:52 PM PST
by
Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: Tailback
What????? That’s for the camps!
To: bruinbirdman
A matter of presentation by the Agency also might be of interest. It shows the number for the USA at the bottom of the page.
CIA World Factbook [Excerpt]
Country Comparison :: Current account balance
This entry records a country's net trade in goods and services, plus net earnings from rents, interest, profits, and dividends, and net transfer payments (such as pension funds and worker remittances) to and from the rest of the world during the period specified. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
Rank country Current account balance Date of Information
[...]
190 United States $ -380,100,000,000 2009 est.
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posted on
02/25/2010 2:35:30 AM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: bruinbirdman
I’ll emphasize that it’s “calculated on an exchange rate basis.” ...takes some of the wonder of it all. Granted, we can do fine with that to some extents on trade for civilian wealth. But one problem that it presents for us, is that they don’t need to spend US dollars on military hardware or to spend it on US contractors.
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posted on
02/25/2010 2:44:29 AM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: FromLori
Is all the land, buildings, equipment both civilian and military the gov’t owns taken into account and valued as assets to offset liabilities?
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