<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 gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="msg-5815261233335807170"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5815261233335807170WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg-5815261233335807170"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-5815261233335807170gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The 1980s were a prosperous decade.</span></i></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><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-5815261233335807170"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5815261233335807170WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><u></u><p></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…Yeah the 1980s were prosperous, and the national debt went up dramatically during the 1980s…</span></b><span class="m_-5815261233335807170gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif">John K Clark</font></b></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><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>Tax cuts must be matched with federal spending cuts. </font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Why? It certainly wasn't necessary in the 1980s.<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-5815261233335807170"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5815261233335807170WordSection1"><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>The spending went crazy that decade.  And every decade since then.</font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And yet the economic apocalypse <span class="gmail_default" style="">that</span> so many have been predicting for <span class="gmail_default" style="">many many </span>decades <span class="gmail_default" style="">has</span> yet to occur.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> With the AI singularity fast approaching, worry about the national debt has never been more irrelevant. </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></div></div>