<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 7:00 PM Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Deficit spending *SHOULD* be reserved for crises like the present pandemic.</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Deficit spending is especially important in a crisis like this, whatever negative impact it may have it's insignificant compared with the harm caused by not doing it. I think Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal saved the nation from a Communist or Fascist revolution, during the Great Depression people wouldn't have stood for a federal government that just watched and did nothing as they starved to death, and that's pretty much what most republicans of the era recommended. Some things never change.</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">
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>We have been running deficits for decades</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">For nearly 2 centuries actually interrupted only by the Clinton years. </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"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>all the while income inequality has been increasing.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Not just increasing but accelerating. As I have said before one way or another that trend will NOT continue and some endings are more unpleasant than others. The super mega ultra rich are fools if they ignore that.</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"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>As I write this there is the second confirmed case of covid-19 in the President and Vice-President’s staff. For a supposed germaphobe Trump has been rather blasé about the whole thing;</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If Trump doesn't get sick we will have final definitive proof that there is no God.</font></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"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I wonder how President "I don’t need to wear a mask to the mask factory.” Trump will react tomorrow.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">When Trump visited the mask factory without wearing a mask and recommended everything reopen the song "Live And Let Die" was playing in the background. The symbolism was perfect! </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"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Who the hell am I kidding, he’ll probably be tweet storming about deep state conspiracies to infect him. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I predict he's going to start saying the official death numbers from COVID-19 are fake news and it's all just a liberal conspiracy from the deep state and actually there is no virus at all. But it's still all China's fault for starting the virus. And it's all Obama's fault for not having developed a test for COVID-19, the fact that the virus didn't even exist when he was in power is no excuse. By the way, the new death number for America is 78,616. and at the beginning of March the number was zero.</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div></div></div>