[ExI] Just say no to Google

[John Clark]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> 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.*


*Republican governors and state legislators are NOT trying to expand the
economic safety net, instead they are trying to dismantle it even faster
than Trump's Federal government is. They don't have even a glimmer of a
plan about what to do in a 1000 days or less when a few thousand people
become trillionaires but simultaneously, for the first time in their lives,
tens of millions of respectable middle-class Americans suddenly become
permanently unemployable. Compounding the problem is the fact that on the
whole state legislators tend to be even stupider than federal
legislators. And that is saying something! *

*John*








>
> *> **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. *
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> *>…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. *
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> *John K Clark*
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