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    For History Buffs

    A book listing every employee of the federal government, where they were born, their station and salary in 1841

    https://books.google.com/books?id=6v...oggett&f=false

    Too bad they stopped printing this stuff

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    Re: For History Buffs

    There was an entirely different form of government then, not even close to what's in play now.
    "A man is to be held accountable for the thoughts he chooses to entertain." --Richard Alan Miller

    "If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?" --George Orwell

    "It's not a matter of what is true (reality) that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true (reality)." --Henry Kissinger

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    Re: For History Buffs

    The XIV amendment makes everyone an officer of the government. That would make for a rather large book.

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    Re: For History Buffs

    America made it to 1946 without any economic advisors.

    And we had a much stronger economy.

    In effect, the economy ran itself.

    That was the whole idea.

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    Re: For History Buffs

    Quote Originally Posted by old steel View Post
    we had a much stronger economy.
    The concept of economy is not that old. It was established around 120 years ago that a science was needed to manage shortages. On the surface this is a decent idea but there is now nothing that is the subject of economics that is not also a shortage. This stands to reason because why would you find it necessary to manage a surplus (there are instances that are exceptions .. a flood, a blizzard, a horde of locusts, etc ... these you would also like to manage but you aren't trying to ECONOMIZE them)

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