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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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There's a plan: Kill baby boomers. Except me.
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Ahh, the Eskimo solution.
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I don't think we'll need the Eskimo solution for the Boomers to die. I suspect it will happen eventually, no matter what.
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Sooner rather than later, too, because they're only going to get more expensive.
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Bump...
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Isn't that nice - In comparison, however, that is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the wars we are fighting.
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How much were the overpayments yearly, since the beginning of the program? Was 2009 typical or atypical?
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Amusingly, that is almost identical to the value of the bales of cash we lost track of in Iraq, according to a show I heard on NPR on my way home tonight.
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For the record, that was six billion of Iraq's dollars--not "our" money we were giving to them. It was their money from the start, deposited directly in the Fed Bank in NY as a function of the rules of the Oil for Food program from years earlier. It worked so well that they continued it for years.
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we apparently will have to pay them with "our money." Quote:
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![]() How exactly would that determination be made? Is there some world court or what?
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Just for clarity: According to the radio show, it was $6.6 billion total unaccounted for, which matches the $6.5 billion mentioned in the article, not the $8 billion in the article headline, or the $6 billion on one pallet or $26 billion total mentioned in the comments.
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