"In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies’ resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up
Tag: Bankrupting America
CA Treasurer denounces State Bankruptcy as "baloney"
An open statement has arrived in my Inbox from Sacramento, CA:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011Contact: Tom Dresslar/916.653.2995 Treasurer Lockyer Criticizes Effort to Let States File for Bankruptcy PDFSACRAMENTO State Treasurer Bill Lockyer today issued the following statement regarding reports about a possible move in Congress to let states declare bankruptcy: "To the folks in Congress