The elephant in the room that the secularists just refuse to address, or try to distract from with white elephant arguments blaming Christianity for every moral wrong before 1800, 1900, or 1950ish, depending on the given secularizer's personal preference and knowledge of history.
Honestly, if you wanted to sway those people/actually get why Judeo-Christian morality managed to work for so long, I wouldn't put it in those terms.
The bolded is not intrinsic to dropping the notion of a higher power with an insurmountable privileged position, which is all the initial secularists were.
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I thought it was USAID money being funneled through to USIP for the Taliban. Or was USIP funded completely separately from USAID?You misread. This instance uncovered was not USAID. It was USIP
United States Institute of Peace - Wikipedia
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Apparently "peace" means giving weapons to the Taliban.
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The agencies themselves can cut the contracts, it's just the funding for them even if cut is still going to go through
Fractional reserve creates convoluted leveraging, not a violation of the minting process. What happens is that bank X loans to business Y who's expenses end up in bank Z that loans it out again before business Y has repaid bank X. This is limited by the reciprocal of the reserve fraction, so a 20% reserve ratio can asymptotically generate 5x the circulation via series of debts but the moment-to-moment money supply isn't technically increased.
How are you going to trace the re-loaning of money and deal with only parts of the loan being covered by it?
of course the amount of money increases. they created more money out of thin air.
No, spending potential is increased but for the money to be re-loaned it must have been spent then deposited at a bank. So the amount that can be spent in a single moment is not changed.
Utter nonsense.
At a 20% reserve ratio they can only loan you 800,000 dollars, because they're required to keep 20% of what was deposited with them. It's a regulation against bank runs putting the whole thing out of business.
They have 800,000 dollars and their lending cap increases by 640,000 dollars. If they do, there is now 1,440,000 dollars of debt for 1,000,000 dollars of cash in circulation.
No, the 4x extra is the limit case of banks lending part of what's deposited with them, creating up to 5 million dollars in unrepaid debt spending from 1 million dollars in circulation at any single moment.
