<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:50 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>>​</div>That lecherous adulterous fellow Bill Clinton that you think should have been kicked out of office did  [balance the budget<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ for 4 years​</div>] </font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>If he really did that (not just by accounting tricks such as raiding Social Security) then we should be working to repeal the 22nd amendment and instead elect Bill.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><font size="4">You said that not me. And if it was all some mysterious accounting trick why didn't George Bush use that wonderful trick before Clinton, and why did George W Bush stop using that wonderful trick as soon as he got into office?<br> </font><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>​</div>John, you do realize why interest rates are not going up, ja?  If they do, the federal government cannot pay the interest on its own debt.  <p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​</span><font size="4">Oh come on Spike, the Republicans have<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>been<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>predicting sky high interest rates and astronomical inflation for<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>well<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>over a decade, and no matter how<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ you​</div> try to spin it or how many excuses<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>you make<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>they were <b>DEAD WRONG</b>; exactly the opposite of what they predicted would happen happened. But perhaps I shouldn't judge them too harshly, as Yogi Berra said "Predicting is hard, especially about the future".<br><br>John K Clark<br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>