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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] what would any of us have done differently?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Spike, your problem is that you only ever criticize one side…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Will how many sides have you criticized? I can’t out do you so there is no need for me to try.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… That makes you look like a hypocrite…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Compared to… who?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…and it is hard to take you seriously on a lot of issues…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK so don’t take me seriously on a lot of issues, for really I only issue have one that I care much about. All this culture war stuff to me doesn’t matter compared to the world of hurt the USA is facing when we finally realize we really do hafta pay the bill for all this money we are printing, that printing money isn’t printing wealth. When we get to that realization, we find out that only a fraction of this country is working, and there aren’t enough of them to pay the debt.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No one in government today has offered us a plausible non-horrifying scenario on what happens then.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The rest of this all just noise.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>