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Audio Book Sample from Bad Love Tigers, 2nd in the Bad Love Gang Historical-Science Fiction Book Series by Kevin Schewe: In Bad Love Strikes, the Bad Love Gang discovers The White Hole project, a âbackup planâ time-travel machine created by President Franklin Roosevelt in case America lost the race to create the first atomic bomb. In the exciting sequel Bad Love Tigers, the Bad Love Gang uses the White Hole project to travel back to 1945 to thwart Russian spies and protect the secrets of Area 51, before heading to China to volunteer with the AVG Flying Tigers under General Claire Chennault. Now, in Bad Love Beyond, the gang must travel not just through time, but through space as well to learn the reason behind Blue Nova Oneâs mysterious visit to earth.Schewe, who has a background in physics, has always loved stories about time travel. âThese stories just come to life in such an organic way,â Schewe says. âThey combine my chi
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Vice President Mike Pence receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex Dec. 18.
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In the first month or two of 2020, we had the first hint of a new, strange disease that originated in Wuhan, China. By March, we were locked down in our homes and have lived unprecedented disruptions of normal life since then. All along we have looked to science for a remedy holding our breath behind our masks.
A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems.
Millions of Americans have joined the ranks of the unemployed, and government relief checks and savings are running out; meanwhile, the country still needs trillions of dollars in infrastructure.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Putting the unemployed to work on those infrastructure projects seems an obvious solution, especially given that the $600 or $700 stimulus checks Congress is planning on issuing will do little to address the growing crisis. Various plans for solving the infrastructure crisis involving public-private partnerships have been proposed, but they’ll invariably result in private investors reaping the profits while the public bears the costs and liabilities. We
invariably result in private investors reaping the profits while the public bears the costs and liabilities.
We have relied for too long on private, often global, capital, while the Chinese run circles around us building infrastructure with credit simply created on the books of their government-owned banks.
Earlier publicly-owned U.S. national banks and U.S. Treasuries pulled off similar feats, using what Sen. Henry Clay, U.S. statesman from 1806 to 1852, named the American System - funding national production simply with sovereign money and credit.They included the First (1791-1811) and Second (1816-1836) Banks of the United States, President Lincoln s federal treasury and banking system, and President Franklin Roosevelt s Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) (1932-1957). Chester Morrill, former Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, wrote of the RFC: