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====== To bee or not to bee? ======


What can honey bees tell us about the national debt?


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|What do honey bees have to do with a Convention of States? As it turns out they're very useful to help explain why a Convention Of States is needed.\\ \\ Honey bees have been heavily studied and closely monitored for hundreds of years. Our relationship with honey bees goes back even farther though. Humans have been harvesting honey and creating special homes (hives) for honey bees for thousands of years.  \\ \\ There's no question that we know more about bees than any other insect. We know so much about them that we can even estimate how many honey bees exist in the entire world with a good degree of accuracy! \\ \\ Now, let's get back to the Convention of States. We talk about fiscal responsibility, but what does that really mean? If we want to pay off the current U.S. debt, every single honey bee on the entire planet would have to pay $5. That seems like a lot to ask of our little bee friends.\\ \\ The reason to discuss bees is that it's really hard to grasp just how huge the debt problem is for our country. It's too big. We can't wrap our heads around it. We don't know what a million of anything looks like, let alone a billion or trillion. \\ \\ Sometimes it helps if we try to put the debt into some context that we can understand, so people understand the urgency of advancing the Convention of States process. \\ \\ Using the honey bee as an example we can easily see that we're really in a sticky situation and there is no sweet reward waiting for us in the end, only a stinger.\\ \\ #|PETITION_WIDGET{petition_tag:;coalition_id:;anedot_url:}|#|


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|Created:                 |2020-10-13 22:48 GMT|
|Updated:                 |2020-10-21 07:00 GMT|
|Published:               |2020-10-14 04:00 GMT|
|Converted:               |2025-11-11 11:57 GMT|
|Change Author:           |Dwayne Parkinson    |
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