OT? - The government's secret slush funds
<< At a time when Americans are forced to dig deeper than ever in their pockets to pay the high cost of government, politicians and bureaucrats at all levels of government -- local, state, and federal -- are sitting on tens of trillions of public dollars stashed away in secret "slush funds," a WorldNetDaily investigation reveals.
All levels of government conceal the existence of these vast sums of money by keeping and filing what amounts to two sets of financial books -- one for the general public, which shows a very limited revenue stream, and the second, for political insiders, bond brokers, investors and the like, which reveals the money hoards and gives an accurate account of a government's income.
There's enough money in these hoards -- largely the result of aggressive investing on the part of government -- to pay off the $5.6 trillion national debt and the accumulated state and local debt many times over, plus cut everyone's taxes for years to come, according to Walter Burien, a former Wall Street commodities trader, whose revelations -- on talk radio and the Internet -- about government finance practices have sparked a nationwide firestorm of public outrage over an arcane, hitherto all-but-ignored subject ... more ... >>
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Morning Lorne,
Ever wonder why politicians run for office?
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John
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