Video: High School Students Confront $14.3T National Debt

SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- "It's scary" said Mayra Araujo.  "It’s huge," added Kaitlyn Everson.  The two Snohomish High School Seniors are talking about this country's national debt. They've been studying the complex and daunting subject in Ben Doucette's Business and Marketing class and they're not too happy about what they've learned.  "It's out of their control," said Doucette, "and all this spending has been done without their consent and yet they own the debt."

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[DailyBail]

OAKLAND, Calif. — California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140373/ns/us_news-life/

[john]

Sorry to say but wasn't that supposed to happen back on 1-20-09 (according to millions of bumper stickers).

[DailyBail]

Greece to immediately sell state assets

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/greece-to-immediately-sell-state-assets-2011-05-23

[DailyBail]

i thought it was supposed to happen soon after jc's death...about 2000 years ago...isn't that what his brother thought...was it peter or paul or saul...i'm no biblical scholar, as if that needed to be said...;)

[DailyBail]

Thomas Drake, a former National Security Agency executive charged with leaking classified information to a reporter, said in his first television interview on 60 Minutes Sunday that his prosecution is meant to send a "chilling message" to potential government whistleblowers. Drake is accused of violating the World War II era Espionage Act and faces up to thirty-five years in prison for taking five documents home. In a recent piece Jane Mayer of the New Yorker writes, “Drake's case... raises questions about double standards... Several top officials accused of similar misdeeds have not faced such serious charges. John Deutch, the former C.I.A. director, and Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General, both faced much less stringent punishment after taking classified documents home without authorization.” Drake told 60 minutes the NSA could have prevented 9/11and that afterwards it abandoned privacy protections and began squandering taxpayer money

http://www.innworldreport.net/inn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4341:nsa-whistle-blower-targeted-under-espionage-act&catid=35:domestic&Itemid=1

[Sheila]

I' m impressed, I would not have guessed that HS students even
knew what the national debt was let alone being worried about it,


Sheila
www.placeofrefuge2012.com