<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jul 20, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Stephen Van Sickle <<a href="mailto:sjv2006@gmail.com">sjv2006@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:30 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">And without debt you couldn't have capitalism.</span></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why not?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Ditto.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I would make a difference between coercive (usually called 'public') debt and voluntary debt. Certainly, none of us here voluntarily borrowed on the national debate; its payments are forced upon us.</div><div><br></div><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book, "The Late Mr. Gurlitt," at:</span></div><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a dir="ltr" href="http://mybook.to/Gurlitt" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://mybook.to/Gurlitt</a></font></div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>