<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So given the above definition is Trump intelligent?</font></div></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> John K Clark </font></div></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">If we knew what his goals were, then we could judge. Dangerous to make assumptions about what he is thinking. It may be that he intends the results you quote.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">bill w</font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:55 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 PM, William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">:<span class=""><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 dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Re changing political opinions: perhaps the best measure of intelligence, and my favorite, is the ability to adapt to new situations.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">That is a pretty good definition, and situations have always changed and the rate of change will accelerate as the singularity<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>approaches, so unwavering libertarian purity is not a sign of intelligence. Actually unwavering anything is not a sign of intelligence. </font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">And speaking of acceleration, apparently Trump doesn't think the accelerating wealth gap is accelerating fast enough. Under Trumpcare people who have the top 1% income will save $33,000, and those in the top .1%, that is people who make more than 3 million a year, will save $197,000. At the other end of the wealth spectrum </div>a 64-year-old earning $15,000 a year<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> will have to pay</div> $8,394<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> more, and </div>a 55-year-old earning $25,000<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> would have to pay </div>$3,636<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> more.</div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">And just today t</div>he Congressional Budget Office <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">said</div> the number of people <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">with no health insurance of any sort will under Trumpcare increase by 1</div>4 million <div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">by this time next year, and the number will reach 24 million by 2026. All this is of course a bad news for poor people but it is also bad news for rich people because it will decrease the likelihood their heads will remain firmly attached to their shoulders. </font></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So given the above definition is Trump intelligent?</font></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></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><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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