What the Federal Government Actually Owns (We Think)

[FastTadpole]

Technically they own us and our children the second that birth certificate is signed or I suppose the central private banks do, how else does a nation borrow (print) money without collateral or a promise to pay. Those assets include both you as a slave and nature reserves etc.. This site is obviously loaded with bias but it serves as a decent discussion topic - feel free to pick apart. They own everything since they have the guns, but this is how one perspective see it on paper or in this case a light-hearted infographic.

Quote:What the Federal Government Actually Owns (We Think)
May 20, 2010 at 12:43PM by The Editors

Here at The Politics Blog, we've spent pretty much every one of our first thirty days covering this alleged activists-take-control revolution "sweeping" America. (At least on Twitter.) But after the bloodletting from Arizona and other state governments, after the hedged bets of potential presidential candidates, and certainly after what we've seen from Rand Paul and this week's primary elections, we thought it best to let the facts — beyond those voting numbers from Kentucky — stand for themselves. This deep into Campaign 2010, is there really all that much for the Tea Party to "take back" from America? This long after the bailouts, has the new administration really compiled some sort of abnormally large war chest? We asked the gentlemen at Column Five Media to lend us a hand with a little research, and a little fun....

   
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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/go...cts-052010

[h3rm35]

It's hard to argue with most of it, although there are plenty of glaring omissions as you've pointed out...

The Goldman Sach's legal team should have been left out, IMO, because once you bring that in, you have to look at the fact that they own the US, and the water gets a little murky on all those points after that...