9 thoughts on “$11,400,656,567,952.60”

  1. Myron Pauli

    Well, the debt amount can always be used (at least the last 10 digits) as a random number generator!
    I’d just use the rest of this post for two postscripts:

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    P.S. # 1: I am somewhat grateful but humbled by being the BAB Dad of the Year – I’ll attribute that to my cute daughter. Well, she made honor roll!

    P.S. # 2: I didn’t realize that Barbara Grant is in the same racket I am in. So is radiometry an art or a science? I’ll close with this cynical remark – why is radiometry like Affirmative Action? Answer – because one is searching for a reliable BLACK BODY.

  3. Michel Cloutier

    Remember how the US was said to have ‘won the cold war’ after the USSR collapsed ? I think a significant difference between the two protagonists is that one had rich friends who would lend it money, (they still do) while the other did not. I shudder when I think how badly prepared we North Americans would be to such a collapse, at least compared to how the ordinary Russian citizen was.

  4. M. B. Moon

    The blood thirsty side of me would like to see members of the government backed banking cartel tried for high treason and hung (never mind the drawing and quartering, that is just sick, English, hang your heads in shame and now you know why your teeth are not so cavity resistant). However, I am reminded that vengeance is His; too bad they cannot remember “Thou shall not steal.” And what they did is no doubt legal and the rule of law is worth more than any desire for vengeance.

    But I would be quite happy with just the abolishment of legal tender laws so we can all watch the spectacle of honest/free banking and money creation eat the government backed cartel alive in the market place.

  5. Robert Glisson

    I’ve an idea for the summer; ‘Since we have to stay in the shade anyway’ activity. Why not start a “Debt Pool” “What is the most likely time we will hit TWELVE TRILLION?” Like my guess would be July 4, 12 noon. No prize for the winner, just a mutual sigh across the board. We can’t afford to give a real prize anymore.

  6. Andrew T.

    “Deficits don’t matter”, right? At least that’s what our fiscally “conservative” leaders want to tell us. Poor Mencken is rolling in his grave.

  7. Barbara Grant

    It’s no small thing, Myron, being named “Dad of the Year,” or similar honor regarding fatherhood. My own father (who has since passed on) was a truly great Dad, indeed. He lost his own father as a boy, during the Great Depression. Interestingly my grandfather Grant (who descended from Jewish Hungarian Nagys; they changed the surname upon immigration to the U. S.) was apparently quite a fine engineer, and held several patents including one for an improved version of the internal combustion engine. He’d been a U. S. Army Captain serving with the AEF in France during the Great War, and took a lungful of gas during the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, which arguably shortened his life. He died before achieving his potential as an engineer, and my dad had to grow up without him.

    I think you may agree with me that “Wilson’s War” was not just stupid, but also evil and abominable, concerning U. S. intervention in the European theatre in which we had no business. Sadly, few today remember just how nasty Wilsonian interventionism was.

    In my view, radiometry is both art and science. My late colleague (a singer as well as an engineering professor) chose the title.

  9. M. B. Moon

    Wilson’s War, eh? Good one! Another pious monster apparently. Didn’t he promise to keep us over here? Wasn’t FDR also a supposed peace President?

    My reading of the Old Testament convinces me that lying is a huge No-No. Tis no mere venial sin. And now my tribute to Lincoln/Wilson/FDR/etc:

    The harms of Wilson’s War
    were many then and many now.
    And will they ever end?
    Not till we suspend
    the worship
    of that sacred cow.

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