<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 6:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></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_9066512306745504981WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><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">>…If a vaccine can not be found then the lack of a balanced budget will be the very least of our problems!  John K Clark</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Least of our problems?</i><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><font size="4"><br>Yes, the least of our problems.</font><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_9066512306745504981WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Lack of a balanced budget will be the CAUSE of our problems. </i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><i><font size="4"><br></font></i></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Failure to balance the budget created the COVID-19 virus?</font></div></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_9066512306745504981WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> we have failed to balance the budget for decades</i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">No. W<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">e have failed to balance the budget for nearly 2 centuries. So maybe just maybe a budget deficit doesn't bring about instant economic death after all. But COVID-19 can bring about biological death, not instantly but pretty damn fast, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2,528 Americans died just yesterday and that's the second highest in one day ever bringing the new number to 76,868 dead Americans.</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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