"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable."
by:
George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'
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1793, Message to the House of Representatives, Ref: Washington's Maxims, 64
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America has paid a hefty price for ignoring the words of their Founders. When the Americans are willing to wage the 'War on Hypocrisy', there may be hope yet.
 -- E Archer, NYC     
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     -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US      
    I wish this George was president today ... although he probably would have started a revolution long ago.
     -- Mike, NC     
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    Don't worry...the War is coming.
     -- David L. Rosenthal , Hollywood     
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    Amen !
     -- Me Again     
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    I think the new name for the illuminati the Founding Fathers worried so much about. is now called the Bilderbergers , Freemasons and the Trilateral Commisson,...far more scary than they ( the illuminati) were in the Revolutionary days. Another Revolution would not cure anything ...just make the trilateral commission even richer.
     -- Christopher Glacken, Fairless Hills Pa     
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    Our founding Fathers would not recognize America today.
     -- j Hampton, Bedford, IN     
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    Extremely accurate on its face. Today's funny-money - debt (with interest) is created out of thin air and then exchanged for real wealth (labor, property, services, products, etc.) without possibility of full repayment. Without an intrinsicly valued money of tangible measure, no perfected allotium is available (absolute ownership no longer exists). Not considering any legitimate debt or future obligations, in 1913 liberty was lost, the de jure States united exchanged the status as a government of law for a tyranny of men and unalterably bankrupt a most prosperous representative republic.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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     -- Mary - MI      
     -- Ronw13, Yachats Or      
     -- Jim k      
    When ones Liberty bought at the price of chains, is of more value than the least of their children's [ free gift of Liberty ] there is No love or cause to revolt or stand on behalf of your poor child's True Liberty. A sacred, noble and worthy cause drenched in the blood of many a true Patriot. Semper Fi
     -- Ronw13, Yachats Or     
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    I am prepared to meet with any member of the US citizenry to discuss the resolution of the 32+trillion dollar national debt that continues to burdens the United States of America.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    ;-). ;-). ;-)  LOLOLOLOL, hahahaha — Silik, what would you discuss? Your mental illness, complete with illusions of grandeur, are cute but not impressive. Even after the most simple banter on this blog, you've admitted that you do not understand economics, the Federal Reserve or any of the fiscal elements that individual sovereigns are suffering under and/or are being burdened with. Your god, the inanimate United States of America, can not be in debt or burden. The inanimate and unconstitutional U.S.A is being occupied by an establishment of religion that inflicts individual sovereigns that once enjoyed a "laws of nature and of nature's God" offered prosperity.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Sillik, a question for you; do you have socialist fiscal scholars or other learned experts in Keynesian economics available to you that you may rely on?
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    No Mike, Norwalk I don't have these credentials you mention. I just know you suffer from a severe mental impairment, just like everyone else, and I don't. I intend to repair your impairment. Mike, Norwalk, Mr "superior" guy who owes the United States well over 250 thousand dollars and has no clue or care of paying your share. I intend to pay every cent of what owe. Signed Mentally healthy gentleman Fredrick William Sillik.


     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Here's a question for you Mr Mike, Norwalk. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, all reported Billionaires, yet never offer to fork over a measly, in their presumed terms, a sum more than 250 thousand dollars to pay down the nation debt, don't you think that at all odd?
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike Norwalk, what would happen if one these aforementioned mentioned billionaires paid their share of the national debt?
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, I think we have discovered a marketed item a reported billionaire can't buy, his share of the national debt. A sum of well under 260 thousand dollars. Astounding isn't it.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, what is astounding is your ignorance of the subject matter and your Pavlovian trained response. If the debt you reference belong's to the nation, let the nation pay it. The nation doesn't represent or speak for me, my individual sovereignty, inalienable rights or liberty and it does not operate at constitutional law. What is the lawful nexus that transfers the inanimate nation's debt to me, you, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos or any other sentient being? What is the aforementioned  billionaires share of a foreign intangible's debt and why? Sillik, your erroneous delusion of FRNs and the system of debt only works in the diluted mind of ignorant chattel. Your professing to be a socialist is once again proven out.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Sillik, your word salads are vague generalities with NO! substance (false presumptions as a foundation, added to by erroneous propaganda). By example: The system that uses a unit of measure called dollars is a system of debt that can NOT ! ! ! be paid off. Each dollar in circulation was borrowed with interest. If each dollar (Federal Reserve Note = FRN) borrowed were to be paid back, that would not address the interest (usury) owed. More FRNs would have to be borrowed to pay back the interest. The debt by design can not be paid back. To come to a lawful and factual answer, you will have to quit giving so much credence to the socialist accountants in the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land / nation and their media.

    If Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos along with every million / billionaire there is gave EVERY cent they posses and/or control to the government for the purpose of debt elimination, it would NOT begin to scratch the surface of debt elimination (there are still FRNs out there in circulation). “No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt”.

    The only way the “national debt” can be paid off is if the nation that created the debt (not the non-represented individual sovereigns) eliminate the Federal Reserve and produce constitutional money based on gold / silver / a specie of intrinsic value.


     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Sillik, (-; I'm so glad you intend to repair my impairment — I've needed fixing for so long ;-). AND because, how it stands at present, my Mr. "superior" existence owes nothing to the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land / nation (your so-called U.S.A). From your socialist perspective, what is the lawful nexus that demonstrates how I owe to your god two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.)?
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Sillik, there is something else that I'm really glad for; and that is, to know that mental health is based on the Sillik scale.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Why, Mr Mike Norwalk, does the national debt clock report a 254,000+ dollar per taxpayer stipulation on the clock?
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, socialists lie.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Sillik, beyond the obvious, actual and simple answer, a little deeper dive may help. All FRNs are as the say — a financial obligation to pay that which was borrowed (with interest) — a note. The note then goes through the process of illicit conversion. The then converted note is forced upon an economic system as a medium of exchange (erroneously being called money). As a conversion, the medium of exchanged (note) is used in compounded debt in eliciting services and products. Said compounding of debt cycles multiple times (standard example is a vacationer pays the inn keeper, the inn keeper compounds the debt use by financially acting with the hardware store, etc.). Your national debt clock example cherry picks a specific debt cycle and then adds an illusionary relationship to keep the chattel enslaved and misinformed.


     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Dazzling, Mr Mike, Norwalk, sadly you are what you express, sadly Mr Mike, Norwalk.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    It's so sad Mr Mike, Norwalk I continue to be so disappointed in your ability to discourse. I'm always trying to find some thread of intelligence from you and I'm always always disappointed.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mr Mike, Norwalk, you and I travel totally different roads. Your's is a road in search of the gullible, fool, the idiot. My road is in for intelligence. It is strongly believed that you are what you seek. I believe we both prove this belief.


     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Correction: Mr Mike, Norwalk, you and I travel down totally different roads. Your's is a road in search of the gullible, a fool, the idiot. My road is in search of intelligence. It is strongly believed that you are what you seek. I believe we both prove this proverb.

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Fredrick, you are mentally ill and it shows in all your comments across the site.

     -- Taylor, New Jersey     
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