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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] eput this crazy system out of our misery: was RE: Euthanasia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Every dime spent by government was authorized and voted on by the House of Representatives and every tax was also authorized and voted on by the House of Representatives, they knew at the time that those 2 things were not equal so the only way to pay for the things THAT THEY ALREADY VOTED TO BUY, is to borrow money<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Or vote to buy less now. Waaaaay less now. Scale back almost everything the government is doing, not by choice but because we have used up our credit rating. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>And now in the name of fiscal responsibility they are going to break their word and refuse to do what they promised to do<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> John K Clark<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>They promised to do what they cannot do. In the early 2000s, the congress bet the economy would grow enough to accommodate the wild spending spree of those heady days. The economy didn’t grow at the assumed pace. Now we must face up to the bills that were run up during that period. This is the democrat’s big chance to say It’s all Bush’s fault. They would be right this time, or half right. They have already borrowed our Social Security savings and spent it without means to repay, so those of our generation are screwed when we reach retirement age. What do we mortgage next? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Overspending is unpatriotic, it represents a threat to national security, a failure in leadership. Our current president could read off his teleprompter word for word the speech he made in 2006, for it is more true now than it was then. Instead he disowns it. Why? Instead, congress brings in another far bigger wild overspending program.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sheesh.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>At some point, the US will go into massive default. It only gets worse the longer we wait.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>