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Age
I am restrained
by the walls of man,
Judged and sentenced
Not of my plan.
I am a secret held close to the
vest
Forced to find refuge
Away from the rest.
I am a beggar. I am a sage.
Experiencing all
Through nothing but age.
I am retained by the thoughts of
few
In the wake of a time
I briefly passed through
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
--Albert Einstein (more) |
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Part of the gross national debt includes the
entire $1.5 trillion Social Security Trust Fund, all of which has been
borrowed and spent. Since the early 1980s, U.S. taxpayers have been paying extra
FICA taxes to build up a surplus that will have over $3.5
trillion by 2012 and an even higher amount in its peak year of 2017. But this surplus has
been loaned to the General Fund of the federal government for other
uses, contributing even further to the national debt. (more) |
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