<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 Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br><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-1812382478739505443"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1812382478739505443WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That ballroom costs the taxpayer nothing.  Why would you be opposed to that? </i></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Because the list of people that are paying for You Know Who's stupid ballroom is being kept secret, and that is a fertile breeding ground for corruption. And because he completely demolished the historic east wing of the White House after promising that he would not touch it. And because that ballroom will be larger than the rest of the White House combined, forever disfiguring its appearance. But most of all because He Who Must Not Be Named has obviously spent more time thinking about that gaudy ballroom (and the gold plated bathroom in the Lincoln bedroom) than AI or nuclear war or the next pandemic<span class="gmail_default" style=""> or the government shut down or ...</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I oppose it too and agree it should be cancelled, not because I have anything against solar but because taxpayers shouldn’t be funding power projects. </i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Five years ago I would've agreed with you, probably even three,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> but today we live in a very different world. Economic ideology that once seemed so important to me now seems ridiculously trivial. So I say to hell with yesterday's outdated ideology and do whatever is necessary to beat China to the AI finish line. And that finish line is only three years away, maybe less. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""> John K Clark</span> </b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i> <br></i></span></blockquote><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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"></span></b><blockquote><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></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-1812382478739505443"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1812382478739505443WordSection1"><div><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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><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></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>