It took 220 years- from 1776 until 1996- for the US Treasury to ink $5 trillion worth of debt.
It took the Obama administration and an obsequious Congress less than 4 years to ink $5 trillion worth of debt.
Any questions?
p.s. those dollar figures are inflation-adjusted
In the Weimar Republic, inflation served to drive wealth towards real assets and therefore towards those who produced such assets. This effected a recovery - a "re-inflation" - of the German manufacturing sector. Then, once hyperinflation had done its job, they created a new currency based on debt issued by a land bank and backed by real assets. Yes, they could have done this without hurting workers so badly, if they had had superior social insurance.
Oh yes, absolutely! If only the National Socialists had come to power earlier. They would have provided social insurance for all of the German workers. Especially government workers. And especially the military. Then the hyperinflation would have been good. All because the Reichsbank would have printed even more money in order for people to redeem their insurance.
I feel so stupid that you came up with such a brilliant solution before me!
There is no question at all that synthetic antibacterial substances, often added to consumer products, will directly breed resistant bacteria.
As one ubiquitous example, please research triclosan's effects on bacterial biology, as well as its environmental impact. Triclosan will degrade into dioxin and other carcinogens when exposed to sunlight. The proof is in the pudding.
Lastly, even if there were such a synthetic additive which somehow did not potentiate microbial resistance, it would still likely add to our constant daily bombardment of carcinogens.
Trading short term pathology for a longer term pathology, which costs hundreds of billions of dollars annually to deal with, is not a very wise public health strategy. There are no short cuts.
...the US Constitution.
Backed up the system lately?
