<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:42 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"> wrot</span><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">e:</div></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"><span class="gmail-"><blockquote style="border-style:none none none solid;border-top-width:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-bottom-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><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"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">>>…</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">If these guys can balance the budget</span></blockquote></blockquote></span></div></blockquote></div></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"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><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">>…Like Bill Clinton did? </blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><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"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>> Like Newt Gingrich did? Actually neither of them did: it was accounting tricks. They robbed Social Security by moving welfare cases to SS disability.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">That is incorrect, even if you ignore Social Security there was <b>STILL</b> a surplus </font></div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'droid serif',serif;line-height:21.98px">of $1.9 billion in 1999 and $86.4 billion in 2000<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">, Clinton's</div></span> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">last year.</div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-under-clinton/">http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-under-clinton/</a></div></div><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt"> </span><br><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"><div><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"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>…Face it Spike, thanks to Johnson the Libertarians are getting the reputation as the silly party, not to be confused with the Republicans who now will forever be known as the stupid party. </span></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><div><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"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div></span>John what kind of reputation do you think Hilliary has given her party? </blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">The Democratic party will have s reputation for nomination somebody knowing what Aleppo is and being able to name a foreign leader, several in fact.</font></div></div><div> </div><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"><div><div><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"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u></span></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"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>The budget deficit is not a pressing issue, although a case could be made that it's too small</span></blockquote></div></div></div></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 lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>What happens when interest rates go back up? With a debt this size, we will devour our entire revenue just paying interest. This will not be good.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">If the government is ever going to borrow money, as its been doing nearly every year since 1835, then now is certainly the time to do it when interest rates are almost zero.</font></div><font size="4"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> John K Clark</font></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><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"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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