<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Have you any ideas on balancing the budget? Do share please.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Yes - forget about it. Won't happen. The only consolation I see is that point that John Clark made about when you borrow money you pay back dollars that are worth less than the money you have when you borrow it. One idea: means-based Social Security. I love getting it but I don't need it and regardless of having paid in to it I would do without it to help the budget. I would just regard the tax as going to help other people and not something I'd get back someday. Not likely a popular idea. Welfare is means-based or supposed to be. Another - negotiate drug costs (which you will have to get by the Repubs and good luck with that; think about it - government employees who refuse to lower the cost of government. I thought the Repubs were ecstatic about lowering government costs. But no, not when it impacts their donors - just how many lobbyists do the drug companies have?)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">bill w</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:46 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-6142842432586830272WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Interesting statistic<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:24 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In the senatorial election democrats got 11.8 million more votes than the republicans but the democrats lost at least 2 seats to the republicans and probably 3 or 4. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John K Clark</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">What is frustrating to me is that polls show that people are more likely to favor the Democrat's ideas, but vote Republican. Given the brains and knowledge of the average voter, this is not surprising, but it is frustrating.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">bill w</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">BillW, one can like the ideas but simultaneously recognize that the Federal government isn’t paying for all the ideas it has already had. It is borrowing money to carry out its current ideas. New ideas are of little value unless they are ideas about how to balance the budget. The ideas I have heard from both mainstream parties have nothing to do with balancing the budget.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Have you any ideas on balancing the budget? Do share please.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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