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Podcast: The American Enterprise Manifesto: My America's Vision of Peace and Nonviolence for Humanism
Episode: Downsize Government and Upsize American Enterprise
Description: The cost of the American form of government is lost to concealing reality by cooking the books. Not all of the obligations are recorded as incurred and revenues are recorded in advance of being earned resulting in understating the cost of governance and overstating the amount of revenue collected for any period of time due to timing differences. The only source of information to answer the great questions are embodied in the debt clock (www.debtclock) maintained by the US Camber of Commerce in New York city. It calculates the expenditures, tax receipts on a generally accepted accounting method cal...