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To: FJB who wrote (843023)	3/15/2015 10:20:18 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573925

The most important thing Barack Obama could do today would be to work to abolish the student loan program, and dedicate $10 Billion of that money for top universities like Harvard and MIT to develop intensive online curricula that are free or dirt cheap to students. The university system should just die. We do not need community colleges and state universities on every corner. We need for young people (or old people) to be able to get accredited, high quality educations online for very little money. So that we can compete against India and China. And other places that are a hell of a lot poorer and more remote. This is the most pressing need America has before it today.

To: FJB who wrote (843023)	3/16/2015 8:13:44 AM
From: D.Austin	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1573925

"Is a country off the rails if it doesn’t know if it’s in debt $100 Trillion or $200 Trillion?“ The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is acting in a bipartisan way to cover up the biggest single threat to the bipartisan political alliance that is stripping America of its wealth: the United States Congress. There is no question that the following policy is bipartisan. Democrats and Republicans in Congress are completely agreed that the following information should not get out to the American people, namely, that the present value of the United States government’s off-budget liabilities is over $200 trillion. The man who has followed this for the longest time is Prof. Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University. He has created a great deal of embarrassment for the government by his relentless pursuit of the statistical implications of the statistics released by the Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office has a way to avoid this, namely, to cease publishing the statistics that Kotlikoff has used to expose the real condition of the United States government. Kotlikoff referred to this suppression of information in an article that appeared in Forbes. The CBO has two sets of books. This is what any Ponzi scheme requires. It releases one set of books to the rubes in the financial media, who are perfectly content to quote from it, when they are even aware of it. This is called the Extended Baseline Forecast or EBF.