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    The birth of a child called Prose

    For an author, the job of being the parent of Prose means a never ending job.

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    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Under President George W. Bush, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) increased the Department of Education’s (DOE) budget from $46 Billion to $60 Billion (In 2012, the budget reached $68.1 Billion). For a comparison, under Bush, the Department of Defense (DOD) budget went from $308.9 Billion in 2001 to $729.6…

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    The Next Best Thing, an authors’ Blog Hop

    Authors usually have to promote his or her work to find readers, and all I knew about authors Blog Hopping is that it’s sort of like a chain letter where participants answer questions and/or write posts on his or her Blog linked to other authors taking part …

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    The Evolution of a National Debt Burden – Part 7/7

    The 1935 Social Security Act created primarily a pay-as-you-go system, meaning that payments to current retirees come from current payments into the system.

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    Is it better to have disposable cities or disposable armies fighting one war after another as in the United States? What do I mean? I mean to say that if we are going to spend money so people have jobs, rebuilding cities may be a better choice than waging wars as the United States has done in Vietnam, Iraq and…

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    The Evolution of a National Burden – Part 6/7

    According to Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider Magazine, it was President Clinton that caused the global financial crises of 2007-08, because he did not spend enough and increase the national debt.

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    The Evolution of a National Burden – Part 5/7

    After World War II, the National Debt was reduced from 120% to 30% of GDP by 1981. Then Ronald Reagan was elected president.

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    National Debt Info-Graphic by President 1945 – 2012

    As tax rates dropped for the wealthy, unemployment went up and GDP went down (on average).

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    The Evolution of a National Burden – Part 4/7

    To pay off debt and fund the growing pains of a nation becoming an expanding global empire, Congress passed the 16th Amendment to the Constitution on February 3, 1913 establishing Congress’s right to impose a Federal income tax.

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    The Evolution of a National Burden – Part 3/7

    In 1787, the concept of universal healthcare did not exist anywhere in the world, so how could America’s Founding Fathers be against something that did not exist?