I have received enormous help from the federal government in becoming paranoid. For this I say "thank you." I will show before this endeavor is through that paranoia pays. Yes, it pays to be paranoid! What is paranoia paying me at the time of this writing? At the moment of the original rough draft it was only paying $349.00 per month. Before this book even hit the press it was raised several times. It was raised to $429.00 per month. The latest raise brought the amount up to around $500.00 per month. That is the amount that social security disability pays me. This comes in every month. It is payment for a government-induced mental illness. I am being paid for having the disability of paranoia.

My intention is to make paranoia pay much better than this. Hopefully, that will happen when this endeavor actually goes to press. I have thought of using the proceeds of this book to finance the suing of the government. This money could then be set aside in a non-profit effort that would seek ways to reform the system. The money that might be recovered could possibly be as high as $56,000,000. That is the amount that the government's investigation implied I was hiding for Sol. They may not have out and out said that I was hiding the money. They did slander me with that implication.

This is high grade paranoia that may be well worth the price. More than just explaining my paranoia to you, I intend to extend an opportunity to you, the reader. Before this work is over, you also may benefit from your own high grade stuff. You may be made aware of how necessary big money is for achieving my recovery. I believe you will want to help me to achieve my goal. I believe that you will, no doubt, be directly affected by my success.

This is, possibly, the first effort of its kind in the entire history of our country. I am undertaking it only because I have little choice. Before I get into the details of my personal paranoia I will lead you in a warm up exercise. This is to get you into the spirit of what is to come.

Today, as you may know, you must show that you have assets to get the loan from the bank. If you really had everything that you put down on the loan application you probably wouldn't have asked for the loan in the first place. The question is, do you want the money bad enough to lie about it? If you do you probably will get the money. Today, instead of going to debtors prison, you will go to jail for fraud.

Great progress, don't you agree? Government has made other important leaps forward. Up until the fall of the Soviet Union, the government was protecting us from Godless communism. For this purpose it needed to borrow a lot of money. After all, those communists are deprived souls who think that all property should be divided equally.

You may ask yourself, why would the rich ever want it that way? After all, in our country, we all have hope. Our hope is that one day we will be rich. Then we can enjoy our riches while the poor starve.

I wonder if stating the obvious will change anything? Why should it, this is the American Way. Will stating the obvious change anything? That depends upon whether the rich are willing to learn anything from history. Do the rich wish to be that aware? I am sure that most wars are started over economic issues. Robbery and murder are also. Robbers, and murderers are not nearly as organized as armies. The rich are in much more danger of being robbed and murdered than the poor are. War, however, is not that much of a problem for the rich. This doesn't bother them too much because it is usually the poor that end up doing the soldiering. That is true in conventional warfare. An atomic or hydrogen bomb, however, can hardly distinguish between the rich and the poor. The rich might want to look back to the story of Marie- Antoinette. As you may recall, shortly before she was beheaded, she advised her people to eat cake.

Here we see the results of a rich ruler who was out of touch with her people. She failed to recognize the anger of her people. She was out of touch with the reality that killed her. Now, with that in mind, would you really want to be a politician in this country today? What if the citizens wake up? What if they start thinking? What if they start asking what it means to be 9 trillion dollars in debt? I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. What happens when the public starts wondering who stole their credit? Do you think that our politicians will do as Marie did? Will they say, as poor old Marie said, "Let them eat cake?" True, our situation is a bit different. Our people have bread. As of yet, they just don't quite yet realize how well hocked that bread is. What would happen if that bread was suddenly repossessed?

Maybe the rich are wiser than I give them credit for. Maybe that is why this country hasn't in some manner been more widely in foreclosure. Maybe some of those rich folks have read their history books. I believe that our rich have put themselves in more danger than they realize.

The remainder of this chapter might have saved Marie Antoinette's life if only I would have written this sooner. Who knows, maybe her spirit has reincarnated and I still have a chance of reaching the old broad. There seems to be some evidence that while her spirit may not have made it back in a conventional sense, it may be here in a collective sense. I'm not so sure that her spirit doesn't live in the collective bureaucracies of our government today.

Wow! where did that idea come from? What a wild one that was. She didn't come back as a person, but as a bureaucracy. Her attitude can be reduced down to a simple math problem. Did I say simple? Well, it is simple but not easy. This math problem will answer the question of why there is the illusion that there just aren't enough slices of cake to go around. Enough of this cake talk for now, lets talk math and people talk.

We must do this to see what happens to our financial cake when we sit fearfully in the woods as I am guilty of doing, not demanding my fair share of cake. I have had a lot of time in the woods to think about the hopelessness and to feel the fear that Marie's spirit has given all of us through our bureaucracies and corrupt government.

Oh don't worry Marie, I'm not being judgmental of you. I'm probably as bad as you were. If I didn't have your fine example of what not to do I might have remained insensitive to anyone else's plight but my own. The answer to the math problem that I mentioned would follow shortly may not be the real answer we are all looking for.

I suspect that just as we are not dealing with the actual Marie Antoinette, but her spirit, there has to be a somewhat spiritual answer to our real problem. Marie, would you understand the strange spiritual concept of, "in order to keep something you have got to give it away."? Probably not, but maybe something in this chapter will reach you. Maybe this will be published and circulated in the spiritual realm in which you now dwell. How is your math now days Marie? Have another slice of cake and keep reading.

Mind you, this book is not going to have a bunch of difficult math problems in it. That would only bore you. The problem that I am going to give you will not bore you. Instead, it may help you become paranoid. Forgive me for this one little math indulgence. I will make this as painless as possible. I will try not to do it again in this book.

What I am going to do here is not what this book is primarily about. Then again, maybe it is. You will decide. You must be the judge. For days I have hunted for a hand-held calculator. I wanted to find one with the capacity to do this one simple problem. It has been on my mind. I just can't sleep until I figure the answer. At first, I tried to block these thoughts out of my mind. Now that I have started to think about this, I cannot stop.

What I'm going to attempt is very simple. That is part of what is bothering me. Why hasn't someone done this before? I only hope that it is as simple as I believe to be the case. What I would give to be wrong.

Maybe someone reading this book after the third or fourth printing will find an error. Maybe after runing the problem on their mainframe computer they will write me and tell me that my calculations just aren't true.

At the present I am becoming familiar with the use of computers as word processing tools. I am doing this even as I write the final draft of this book. If only I knew more about using this equipment. It might be possible to figure out what I am about to propose without a mainframe. Actually, the problem is just a very simple math division problem. If I were a mathematician it would be no problem. In my present profession of hoboing, I rarely have to use math. Certainly not to this magnitude of figures in my endeavor.

I am, as required for my profession, a high school drop out. We could skip this part of the book if it weren't so important. I have to get you into the paranoid spirit. Otherwise you might not realize the enjoyment of the rest of this book. Believe me, I would really just like to drop this whole matter.

As I have explained to you earlier, I am almost computer illiterate. I first undertook this project by hand. I did it with a little help from a small hand-held calculator. At first, I thought that I was going to have to have one that had 13 digits on it. My friends were sensitive to my many days of moody pondering about this problem. Some of them came to my aid. They realized that it would be otherwise impossible for me to be happy. I couldn't go on if I didn't have the answer to this problem. My friends pondered with me to help me solve it.

What I want to do is divide 9 trillion by 250 million. Notice that I didn't write out the zeros when I stated the problem. All those zeros just make me nervous. You understand, don't you? The best advise that my friends have given me is that a trillion has twelve of the pesky little zeros. One or more numbers precede these zeros showing how many trillions. So, if we are talking about a trillion of anything we can write it in numbers with 13 digits. Oh?

I guess if you were smart enough you could express it by saying, 9 to the 13th power, but I am just not that smart. You may want to take a deep breath and relax a minute before reading any further. I'll understand, believe me, I don't like this part of my book any more than you do. What ever you do, please don't stop reading. My very life may depend on you not tensing up at this point. You'll understand more as we go on, I promise. Just don't freeze up or quit now.

If you made it with me past this one difficult problem, you no doubt feel self-satisfied. You will be proud of your accomplishment. That is why you must try to stifle the urge that I know that you must be now having. Please, I ask you, don't do that just yet. Finish the chapter first. You owe it to yourself.

Here goes something that I didn't really want to do. 9,000,000,000,000.00......pronounced 9 trillion. Well, I guess that wasn't so bad. You can wipe the sweat off your brow now that the worst is over. Get yourself a refreshing cup of coffee if you want to before you go on. Please, no booze, you need to face the rest of this problem sober. You will have time maybe to get drunk if you like after finishing this chapter. Right now, if you can manage it, please stay sober, it will help both of us.

If you are in treatment for alcoholism or drug addictions you may want to put off reading further until you have at least 1 year of sobriety. If anybody tries to tell you about what else is in this chapter, stop up your ears.

If you are still reading it is obvious that you have made the decision to go ahead with this thing. Thank you, It will mean a lot to both of us.

We still need to look at the number 250 million all written out. Please, no reading ahead, just stay with me. I know you are getting nervous, it looks like this. . . 250,000,000. There now, that wasn't so bad was it?

If I remember right, and they didn't lie to me back when I went to school, the problem of dividing 9 trillion by 250 million can be made simpler by crossing off a bunch of zeros. I can do this in both of the numbers. You may be

saying to yourself by now, "this is fairly exciting stuff." No doubt, you have wanted to divide 9 trillion often in the past. You were reluctant to do so because you forgot about being able to cross out zeros.

To tell the truth, I didn't really become that interested in the number 9 trillion until the other day. This was when I heard some news announcer that I was listening to on the radio say that the national debt ceiling came to that amount. I put this figure with the fact that there are about 250 million people in the United States. I suddenly realized that we may have too few people in our country. Let's see what happens when we use the zero-canceling method that we just mentioned.

___________________ 250,000,000/ 9,000,000,000,000 looks awesome until you find out that actually it is the same as dividing 2.50 into 9,000. That can be handled by many hand-held calculators. It's hard to find calculators that can deal with 13 digits. It is not so hard if you can reduce the numbers down to no more than 4 digits. It comes out to $36,000. That's how much each of us would owe if we pay the present debt ceiling without incurring anymore debts. Not too bad, would you say? It is actually less money than we would spend on a real cheap house.

There is something that worries me though. Not everyone has a job. There are only 105 million of us working. That makes the payoff much higher. In fact, it is the price of a very decent size house in many parts of the country. This is to the tune of $85,714.29 per working person.

At this thought I began to panic. I called my friend Diane- Sullivan who lives here in Austin, to ask her advice. She is in real estate. To answer the question that I ask her, she in turn directed me to call the Henry S. Miller co. who had a computer that can figure amortization on loans. I wanted to know what the interest and principle would come to at the 14 percent rate. That is what the government is now paying on the national debt.

The national debt doesn't mean much to the average person until they see it figured on the per-person basis. In other words what will the $85,714.29 cost us if we pay it out over the next 40 years? The man I talked to was Danny Bone. When I told him what I was trying to figure out he said, "No problem, just mention me in the book." So I did. Danny said that if it was a house that we were buying we would be paying 480 payments at $1003.83. The amount of months contained in forty years are 480.

With interest for this period of time the total amount came to a figure of 5.62 times the amount that we would pay if we could have paid all $85,714.29 out of next weeks pay check. Just in case you were wondering the total payout over more than 40 years comes to $481,838.40 per person. For this amount, the military industrial complex will save us from Godless communism.

It is plain to see what the solution to this situation is. We simply need more people to divide the debt up between. All we have to do is do away with the pill. We must open the borders. We must encourage all the foreigners to move in with us. We must ban all abortions. Our population number must increase. With enough people being taxed the national debt should be no problem at all.

Still, something about this solution doesn't sound quite right. I can't put my finger on it right now. Maybe I'll be able to come up with something better by the end of the book. Actually, I didn't really want to go into any of this at all. What you've just read is what this book is about. It is to wake the public up to how bad the situation is getting.

My own case serves to exemplify this governmental waist. This is waist that accomplishes nothing. It was a little too much for me to understand. I was told that the government had spent 4.2 million having Sol and me investigated. I want you to get in the spirit of this chapter.

I'll try not do any more math problems if you will just keep reading. I promise there are more interesting chapters in this book. Aren't you glad we got this math problem out of the way?