Daily Archives: 6 February 2009

Worldview Web Roundup for 6 February 2009

Ancient southwestern pueblo dwellers drank Mayan chocolate (via Jungle Trader)– Mmm, chocolate. European cannibals (via Jungle Trader) –Brains! Braains! Braaaaaains!  Hating on corn— What happens when the food we grow the most of we don’t actually eat, directly anyway? Narnia … Continue reading

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$3,106.67

I heard this morning that the Senate has the cost of the “stimulus” package up to $932 billion. That’s $68 billion short of borrowing a trillion dollars from the Chinese and the European Union and does not include the trillion dollars we already plan to borrow this year because our budget is a trillion dollars over revenue.

The stimulus plan represents $3,106.67 borrowed for every man, woman, and child living in the United States. That’s $7,456 dollars per household. Those amounts are just the principle owed, without any kind of interest applied. […] Continue reading

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