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Money doesn’t grow on trees. Or does it?

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Thought occurred to me recently concerning the size of the national debt. Follow me for a minute.

There are roughly 250,000 leaves on a typical tree. Found this out by googling it. In addition there are typically 350 trees per acre in a mature forest.

250000
X 350
87500000

Ok, so we have 87.5 million leaves per acre.

Next we have 640 acres per square mile.

87500000
X 640
56000000000

This gives us 56 Billion leaves per square mile.

Now as a part time resident (and native) I knew WV has about 25000 square miles. Turns out 24231 is exactly the right answer.

56000000000
X 24231
1356936000000000

1356 Trillion leaves. That’s a [...]

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What do you do with 3-5 million unemployed, angry youth?

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When you left your magic suit in the last phone booth.

Kids that have spent 12-16 years being indoctrinated into the belief

Your nation is a nasty mean place without any relief.

No jobs to be had and boy are they mad.

Mad at mom

Made at dad

Mad at a government that promised more than it had.

But wait, there is the ONE. His greatness nearly eclipses the SON.

He got vision, he got plan. Barry Saetoro that is our man.

What do you do?

Fund a National Service Corps

The last great depression

saw a Reichstag procession.

Yes, we’ve seen that before.

Heil Hitler they said

You’ll bow down a knee

You’ll his name shout with glee

Heil Hitler [...]

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Do we have a party of principle? What are the principles?

Do we even have men of principle? What are those principles?

Are you a Big Tent Republican? Does big tent preclude principle? Reagan’s big tent philosophy is often cited as reason to avoid getting bogged down in policy debates. Or for failing to excommunicate RINO’s. Did Reagan have no principles?

I have asked here before if there is even one principle to which conservatives can agree one must be bound to be accepted into the fold. I have not yet heard the response that was more than [...]

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Money doesn’t grow on trees. Or does it?

What do you do with 3-5 million unemployed, angry youth?

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