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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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>On Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>spike<br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> is not that identical to selling the actual gold?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>No.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Why? If there is a good reason to hang onto gold</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…I can’t imagine what it is. Google claims there is about 150 million ounces of gold in Ft. Knox, so that is about a couple hundred billion dollars right there. If we sell that to China, we still owe them over a trillion dollars, but at least we offset two entire months of borrowing at the current rate, TWO WHOLE MONTHS of this current Bacchanalian spendfest! Just hand over the damn gold. We could sell off that, wouldn’t even need to borrow until the middle of December, possibly make it to Jingle Bells on that alone if we tighten the belt a bit. Two months of our current lifestyle to which we have grown so fondly accustomed, just for a pile of useless yellow metal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And surely there must be some silver squirreled away somewhere. We are told we aren’t really racking up new debt, but rather just paying for stuff we already bought. So it appears to me it is past time to already sell some stuff we already bought. There is probably some valuable stuff lying around here somewhere, perhaps some change in the couch cushions, before we have to resort to selling Alaska and Hawaii. If we did that, we would need to change all the flags back to 48 stars.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>why not sell that new aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy? That one is said to have cost about 12 billion, so we can assume it would sell for about the same. Stock it with American made fighter planes gets it to about 15B</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My apologies, the new carrier set to launch next month is the Gerald R. Ford:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford_(CVN-78)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford_(CVN-78)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Aint she a beauty? Ignoring the obvious absurdity of naming a ship after a man then referring to her with the feminine pronoun, I am left even more baffled as to why we are still building these things, while borrowing money at the rate of one fully loaded floating nuclear hornet’s nest every five days. Is there anything even vaguely insane about this practice?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We can build one of these Ford-class carriers about every three years if we keep the modern Rosie the Riveters going around the clock, so we only need 90 more of them to cover what we owe China and about 70 for what we owe Japan, so at the current rate, we can pay off both those guys in about four and half centuries just in fully stocked aircraft carriers. Of course those two countries are the biggest buyers of our securities, so it isn’t clear how we can make this happen if we build a nuclear carrier every three years while we are borrowing a nuclear carrier every five days. But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> And on October 23 2013 thanks to the Tea Party we came within 90 minutes of that faith being destroyed forever<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Why those evil rotten bastards. 90 minutes to total destruction of the planet! The USA had only enough time to borrow about 170 million dollars in that 90 minutes to destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>> <span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> the other cause by the room temperature IQ of congressional Tea Party members. <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>John K Clark<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Remind me again John how those foolish evil stupid congressional Tea Party members are causing all this? Did you mean they are the crazy fools who actually uttered the flaming blasphemy that the emperor is naked?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>