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Link here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking
White House Responds To Petition To Build Death Star | Geekologie.
Published on Nov 6, 2012 by RussiaToday
Even before it’s begun, voting on election day already faces disruption – due to the devastating storm that tore through America’s East coast. And some measures introduced to avoid those breakdowns threaten the transparency of the process, as RT’s Marina Portnaya & Anastasia Churkina report from New York.
After years of debate and months of preparations, the military can no longer prevent gays from serving openly in its ranks. The repeal of the 1993 law known as “Dont Ask Dont Tell” took effect Tuesday. (Sept. 20) (The Associated Press)
via Dont Ask Dont Tell ends after 18 years – The Washington Post.
114.5 Trillion Dollars
$114,500,000,000,000. – US unfunded liabilities
To the right you can see the pillar of cold hard $100 bills that dwarfs the WTC & Empire State Building – both at one point world’s tallest buildings.
If you look carefully you can see the Statue of Liberty.
The 114.5 Trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government knows it does not have to fully fund the Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Program, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions. It is the money USA knows it will not have to pay all its bills.
If you live in USA this is also your personal credit card bill; you are responsible along with everyone else to pay this back. The citizens of USA created the U.S. Government to serve them, this is what the U.S. Government has done while serving The People.
The unfunded liability is calculated on current tax and funding inputs, and future demographic shifts in US Population.
Note: On the above 114.5T image the size of the base of the money pile is half a trillion, not 1T as on 15T image. The height is double. This was done to reflect the base of Empire State and WTC more closely.
Source: Federal Reserve & www.USdebtclock.org – visit it to see the debt in real time and get a better grasp of this amazing number.
via A visualization of US debt (credit card bill) stacked in 100 dollar bills.