[ExI] Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.

[John Clark]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM Gregory Jones <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> At some point interest payments take all the money the govt can take
> in.  At that time that's all it does.  s*
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*Spike, AI changes EVERYTHING. I've needed to throw most of my previous
political and economic ideology out of the window because of AI, and you
need to do the same thing and stop fighting yesterday's war. Even before
the advent of AI the idea that a country absolutely must have a balanced
budget to be economically prosperous was dead, and today it's doubly dead. *

*John K Clark*








 *>> **On the contrary.  He is stating an astonishing conviction that a
government cannot sustain spending more than it takes in.  John, is that
really such a mentally unstable position?*

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>>> *>…YES!! It is a sign of mental instability because it is flagrantly
>>> opposite to the conclusion provided by the scientific method. Except for a
>>> few years during the Clinton administration, the US government has been
>>> spending more than it has been taking in for the last 150 years….* *John
>>> K Clark*
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