[ExI] Repudiating the national debt

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:13 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <
> rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ​> ​
>>> What SHOULD we be doing about it?  Trim the military?
>>>
>>> ​> ​
>> ### End Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
>>
>
> ​And what instrument would you use to contain the civil war that would
> erupt as soon as you did that?  A Browning M2 Machine Gun or do you prefer
> cluster bombs?
>

### I think that AI-controlled drones with self-guided bullets would be
pretty efficient.

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>
> ​> ​
>> Gold exists.
>
>
> ​So you want human wealth to be strictly tied to the amount of Element 79
> that is in the crust of this planet, so you want China to be the richest
> country in the world, and you want Australia to be the second richest, and
> you want Russia to be the third richest.
>

### Whatever :)

Rafał
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