<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 8, 2020, 7:00 PM Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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We all know that turning on an endless firehose of money is the financial equivalent of a ‘perpetual motion machine’. But isn’t that what has been going on for decades of deficits? And NOW you want some fiscal responsibility?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No, we had four years of surpluses from '98 to '01. And many of us have been calling for balanced budgets for decades.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Dave</div></div>