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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'>Skip to the end if you are hard up for time. It is worth it. s<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"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Anderson<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] The Republican Party Isn't Really the Anti-Science Party<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:43 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Or not. Be kind to Republicans John, they may soon run your government.</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Perhaps this is wishful thinking Spike<span style='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'>No. I don’t see the Rs as an improvement over the Ds. The Tea Party might be an improvement, or the libertarian party, but the two majors are difficult for me to distinguish from each other.<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>Demographics are on the Democrat's side<span style='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'>True, but this time around, the Democrats may not be on the Democrats’ side. Consider this ad, and imagine yourself a serious Catholic, an important component of the American left and the Democrat party. Now check out this ad:<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'><a href="http://www.doyougotinsurance.com/index.php?id=20">http://www.doyougotinsurance.com/index.php?id=20</a><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'>How does that make you feel?<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'>I’ll tell you what I am feeling when I see something like this: Damn she is hot. <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'>But I am not Catholic. If I had been, this would really piss me offwardly. I would find it highly offensive I suppose, enough to make me stay home next November or possibly even vote for the other guy for the first time ever.<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'>Suppose you match the demographic of the cocky young man in this ad. Would it compel you to go buy insurance? Didn’t think so. They will not come. Suppose you are the girl. Will this ad work on you? Didn’t think so. It might encourage you to buy BCPs out of pocket I suppose, then go on the prowl for guys like this one. So they don’t come either. Now the system collapses, and you have all those target demographics who usually vote D are bewildered. Some who have long been told they could keep their current health plans are getting notices that they are being cancelled because they don’t cover maternity expenses.<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> While the abject stupidity of Washington is undeniable, you can see that an otherwise very smart person can end up blaming the wrong party for the trouble<span style='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'>As we saw, yes. That only works for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>A US default would raise our price of borrowing, but our borrowing should be more expensive than it is: it is riskier than it appears. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Ok Spike, you've off the rails here a bit. Defaulting on our debt would increase the rate of interest the Federal Government would have to pay<span style='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'>They won’t default. They might reduce payouts of Social Security or Medicare, but will find some justification for it besides the obvious.<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> While that doesn't sound so horrible, in 2012, payment of interest on the debt cost $220 billion, or about 6 percent of the budget. If the interest rate doubled from its current low rate (sorry, I can't make sense of the numbers to tell you exactly what it is today) then Poof! All of a sudden this goes from 6% of the budget to 12% -Kelly<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='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'>Kelly I know it is bad, but interest rates will eventually go up, regardless of Federal monetary policy. Stopping them will be like holding back the rising tide. We can at least try to make for a softer landing, or just keep pretending we can live far beyond our means as long as we persistently outvote those who say this will end badly, and keep borrowing like desperate addicts.<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'>To end on a cheerful note, Adrianna the Mona Lisa of HealthCare.gov has been found! And oooooohhhh she is hot, slender, perfect skin, perfect teeth, seeeeexy Columbian accent, oh my, I can’t get enough of her:<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'><a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/exclusive-obamacares-mystery-woman-says-she-fell-victim-111640839--abc-news-topstories.html">http://gma.yahoo.com/exclusive-obamacares-mystery-woman-says-she-fell-victim-111640839--abc-news-topstories.html</a><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'>If she can’t figure out some way to leverage this to a cool fortune, she might as well have stayed in Columbia.<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'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>