"One industry in America has increased its employment base in the last four years by 176,000 people: the United States government."
"The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs – more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance."
"There has never been a death caused by a [commercial nuclear] reactor in the United States, even when Three Mile Island failed in the 1970s."
If you tried to pay out $1 trillion by handing it out at $1 per second, it would take more than 31,000 years.
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