<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8309258316694952829"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8309258316694952829WordSection1"><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8309258316694952829"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8309258316694952829WordSection1"><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-8309258316694952829gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Tax cuts must be matched with federal spending cuts. </span></i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>…Why? It certainly wasn't necessary in the 1980s…<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>That’s where we disagree.  It certainly was necessary in the 1980s<br></font></i></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>But you said yourself the 1980s were <span class="gmail_default" style="">very </span>prospers.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></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"><div class="msg-8309258316694952829"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8309258316694952829WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>and is necessary always. </i></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The USA has had a budget deficit nearly every year for the last 200 years,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> and for 200 years people have been saying an economic apocalypse (or a real apocalypse brought on by God's anger over deficit spending) is fast approaching. But it still isn't here! I figure it will come about the same time as the second coming of Jesus.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span></b></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"><div class="msg-8309258316694952829"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8309258316694952829WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>