<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:43 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">> Be kind to Republicans John, they may soon run your government.</span></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>If in January Republican troglodytes continue to throw their feces at economic logic and behave as they did in October I have 3 predictions:<br><br></div><div>1) The approval rating of congress will drop even lower than its current 9% and Republicans will loose control of the House in the next election.<br>
<br></div><div>2) The level of stupidity displayed in October was so enormous that it even started to scare rich people like the Koch brothers (who said defaulting on the debt would be a disaster), so if they see a repeat performance in January money to Republican crazies will dry up.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>3) No Republican will ever be president again. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">> Our government set up a huge Ponzi scheme; eventually it has to collapse. </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>That could happen in 30 or 40 years but only if one takes the pessimistic assumption that future productivity will be no greater than what it is now, and I like most Extropians am not pessimistic in that regard. <br>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">> It is doing that now. </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For as long as I've been alive I've been hearing that government bankruptcy is imminent, but except for the imbecilic Republican stunt on October 23 2013 I never saw any evidence that it was actually going to happen. And I'm not the only one, the free market can't find any evidence that the government is about to go broke either, hence the anemic performance of gold and the <span class="">insatiable</span> demand for government bonds even at historic low interest rates. <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark<br></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></div>