The Congressional Budget Office said the budget deficit was about $1.1 trillion in fiscal year 2012. That is about $200 billion smaller than in 2011, but still ranks as the fourth-largest deficit since World War II.
<span>One answer might be that culture, an exclusive, frivolous, leisure pursuit of the rich, their flunkies, and social climbers, requires elaborate security to defend its providers and consumers from the righteous anger of the people, whose hard-earned taxes, or lottery losses, are squandered on subsidising fripperies such as opera, ballet, theatre, concerts, and art shows with dead cows in aspic, to which la-di-dah people wear fancy clothes. Another, from the opposite side of the social divide, might say that cultural performances and artefacts embody the best in the spirit of the nation, thus belong to all the people, irrespective of who owns or attends them, and are a source of pride and prestige for all, which must be defended against attack by foreigners, terrorists, hooligans, and madmen. The former is the view of philistines, the latter that of culture vultures.</span>
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Andorra, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
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When Solomon's son Rheaboam became king, he treated the people very harshly. God was not happy with the way this king was treating his people, but he had to keep Rheaboam as king because of a promise given to his grandfather David.
So, God split 10 tribes away from this king, and they became the ten-tribe kingdom of Samaria (Israel) ruled by king Jereboam.
The other two tribes, known as the two-tribe kingdom of Judah, stayed under the rule of Rheaboam.
