U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
Are we asking future generations to take one for the team? We teach math in schools, yet maybe we should add economics to grade schools. Worth of note I am not an economist, my training is engineering – I provide the following videos as part of my research for finding answers and solutions.
I have been trying to invest in World Peace. My guess is that wartime spending starts looking good to a hurting economy – which is not all pretty in a world with large standing armies. If one can’t make money from butter are they more likely to think producing guns will deliver sufficient profit?
I have seen an increase in violence and homelessness in Dallas, TX. Gives feeling of economy might be in harder times than it is letting on.
Imagine the scene on Handguns from HBO’s Newsroom vs consideration of sending a resume to Blackwater. Likely or unlikely to be a scenario for teenagers going to high school that graduate 4 years from now?
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