$44 Trillion article liked by one

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        http://www.topica.com/lists/cyber-soc/read

Camilla referenced the $44 trillion of U.S.
federal government indebtedness.  Another reader
asked for the source.  It came from my article (cited
below).

As I post all my newsletters on the News Groups.

[And, sometimes doing so, sparks further discussion.]

And I used Google Groups to find my own
article I couldn't help but notice this friendly
comment:

"Currently, the federal deficit is about $44 trillion (and increasing),
which translates into $440,000 for each of the approximately 100
million families in the US. (See the excellent article by Dr. W.
Curtiss Priest on this board:

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=misc.invest.misc&selm=3EC91DA4.29DC%40mit.edu
  
[this long URL is probably going to wrap, so copy and piece
it together with no spaces]
        "
this comment was made by a writer explaining "where money comes
from:"

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22curtiss+priest%22+%2444+trillion&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=e1e84edd.0305201931.33d15f2e%40posting.google.com&rnum=1

[this long URL is probably going to wrap, so copy and piece
it together with no spaces]

If you think his explanation is inadequate, just press the "Reply to
Message" 
button (but not before you do a free registration at the site).

For all CITS Debt Watches:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&q=%22cits+debt+watch%22

WCP

P.S.  If you have never tried "news groups" -- there are questions,
answers, and commentaries on over 10,000 subjects going back to
about 1986 at:

        http://groups.google.com

Want a recipe for humus ?  It's there, numerous times.  Actually
646 messages mentioning humus and recipe.  If you want the
exact phrase, use "'s, so "humus recipe" brings the number of
messages down to 31.

And, yes, this is the same "News" as you get via your browser, but
typically
your ISP holds only a week or two of postings, while Google retains a
whole
searchable archive of them.
-- 


           W. Curtiss Priest, Director, CITS
   Research Affiliate, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
      Center for Information, Technology & Society
         466 Pleasant St., Melrose, MA  02176
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