for a price...
The only trouble is the high rate of interest they charge us on the money they loan us to pay them for their goods and for taking away our garbage ...
hmmmmmmmmm It's a shame our banks only get 1% of that interest money as fees... and it's a shame only 1% of the population get the benefit of profitting from those fees from the money we pay to borrow money to buy goods and discard trash ... um, something seems a little circular here...
borrow->buy->throwout --> china!
borrow->buy->throwout --> china!
borrow->buy->throwout --> china!
hmmm Radioshack's "quaint" approach to having "parts" seems a lot more "american" than borrow->buy->throwout, er, --> china! ...
But hey, its okay, with every child born today owing $25 grand and --oh look--its growing! And the best part is that baby can grow up and work and pay taxes to help pay their share of the debt they got for being born in the usa ... oh yeah!
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 23 Dec 2004 at 09:39:42 AM GMT is:
$7,531,570,079,606.11
The estimated population of the United States is 295,129,536
so each citizen's share of this debt is $25,730.50.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$2.56 billion per day since September 30, 2004!
Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!
From:
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/and this
and
Interest on the debt. Interest payments for money the government owes to people it borrowed money from to cover the federal deficits during our lifetimes. $229.7 Billion in 1999. Billion. Almost $1000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States, every year. More than the government spends on education ($56B),
unemployment ($23.6B), housing ($27.7B), food assistance ($33.1B), family support ($19.1B), the earned income tax credit ($25.6), and foreign aid ($15B) combined. The rest of the budget is roads ($42.5B), justice
($25.9B), and everything else ($88.7B). Yes there are savings to be had here, but it is dwarfed by the interest payments on the debt.
So, all of the argument about income taxes and how we spend them is over these $600B and change, and almost $230B is interest on the debt. Money we pay every day, almost $700 million per day of your hard-earned money and mine, and we get nothing for it. Nothing. And it goes on forever! We pay it every year, forever! Until the country either defaults on its debts (a bad idea), or pays off its debts (a better idea).
http://www.geocities.com/ldsdemocrats/opinion_001.htmland see here they are already being our landfill!
Yay!
All the Best!
{:^) FMH