Hi, Lee.

Lee Lofaso - Wayne Harris  writes:

> Hello Wayne,
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> [..]
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>  >> Griffin does not have a very good grasp on how things work.
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>  WH> It was you who recommended me the book. :-)
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> These are his stated beliefs. Make of them what you will.
> From his very own homepage -
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> https://freedomforceinternational.org/position-statements/
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>
> Enjoy his entire site. Lots there.
>
> Here is a talk by him, on a different site -
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> https://www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm

Thanks.  Incidentally, I had already read this talk.  That does clarify
his meanings of some of his description in chapter ten of ``The Creature
from Jekyll Island''.

> That should be enough to give you an idea as to where he is
> coming from. In all his writings, he is consistent with his POV.

Yes, thanks.

But, you see, I'm not worried about his position or ``where he is coming
from''.  Of course it's a very interesting thing to understand a person
deeply, but for Wayne Harris right now the moment is to verify
arithmetic.  We begin verifying that ``2 + 2 = 4'' and then then we move
to claims such as ``17 is a prime number''.  We'll leave interesting
stories of how Gauss really found the normal distribution for a more
retrospective moment of life.  The moment is to know it exists and to
use it to calculate probabilities.  In other words, most of the causes
Griffin lays out in his talks and books are not important to the
beginner: what matters most is how things work and how we can verify it.

So here's a pretty simple question.  Is there an _official_ reporter of
the US national debt?  (If so, where does it show it the amount?)  A
follow-up question would be: how can we get an official history of the
increases in the national debt?  (That is, where is the accounting
statements for the number over the last few decades?)

Thanks so much.

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