<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 2:12 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</div><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1578017195154631959WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p></div></div> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1578017195154631959WordSection1"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>….When that happens unless you want a bloody revolution you'd better have a very elaborate safety net in place to catch all those millions of people when they fall and lose their jobs because although they may end up starving to death they will not die immediately and they will NOT go peacefully…</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>What’s different about this one is that it wouldn’t be clear who the revolutionaries would slay. </i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And that would make things even more dangerous, when people become angry they start doing irrationally counterproductive things like voting for Trump. And if you want to know why people are angry take a look at this graph that was just published today in the New York Times, it won't take you long to realize something is seriously wrong and if we don't make a 180 degree turn pretty damn quick we're headed for trouble:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2019%2F02%2F24%2Fopinion%2F24leonhardt-chart%2F24leonhardt-chart-facebookJumbo.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F02%2F24%2Fopinion%2Fincome-inequality-upper-middle-class.html&docid=ewXLtD3n67Nn5M&tbnid=lLlLmLYcOStRFM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiQ_aChodfgAhXIct8KHZ5wD4cQMwg8KAQwBA..i&w=1050&h=549&bih=863&biw=1707&q=Thomas%20Piketty%2C%20Emmanuel%20Saez%20and%20Gabriel%20Zucman&ved=0ahUKEwiQ_aChodfgAhXIct8KHZ5wD4cQMwg8KAQwBA&iact=mrc&uact=8">The upper upper upper class</a>  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1578017195154631959WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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