[ExI] Just say no to Google

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] Just say no to Google

 

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> all the media across the spectrum has a universal flaw: they don’t have a critically important insight that you and I have.  You and I, along with perhaps nearly everyone here, understands what is coming, better than professional news people who make their living at this sort of thing.  None of them demonstrate a convincing understanding of the singularity concept. 

 

>…And yet today when we are fewer than a thousand days from tens of millions of Americans becoming not just unemployed but unemployable, and when we are also fewer than a thousand days from the US economy starting to grow at an enormous exponential rate, you are OK with He Who Must Not Be Named picking this particular moment to start dismantling the economic safety net instead of massively expanding it because you think nothing is of more Earth shattering importance, not even the Singularity, than achieving a balance budget every year, something this country has only achieved five or six times during the last 250 years. It makes absolutely no sense. 

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

 

 

John, it isn’t dismantling the social and economic safety net, but rather transferring that net to entities capable of supporting it.  The US federal govt is not that entity, for its debts accumulate.  It is all it can do just to pay its debts.  States on the other hand, can go bankrupt, for they do not print their own currency.  They must balance their budgets.  Consequence: they are not using up their revenue paying interest.  So… they get their economic safety nets back.

 

I don’t think the singularity is 1000 days from now.  I think of it as more like 5000 to 8000 days, in that range.  The big US federal trouble is more like 3000 days from now.

 

spike  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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