<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, Jun 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font></div><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"><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-4524564555820491916"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4524564555820491916WordSection1"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>>></span>Where does the money come from?</i></font></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></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"> </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-4524564555820491916"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4524564555820491916WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> Spike, I'll be damned if I understand the point you're trying to make. The money  the government will need to keep tens of millions of Americans from starving to death, because they are no longer employed or employable, will come from exactly the same place that this government and every other government has always used to get money, through taxes…</b></font></blockquote></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"> </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-4524564555820491916"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4524564555820491916WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>They can’t get enough through taxes.<br></i></font></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Why not?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>I don't see why they can't<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> if the people paying the taxes have far far <span class="gmail_default" style="">far </span>more money than they have today<span class="gmail_default" style="">, and remember according to the Supreme Court, corporations are people. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></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"><div class="msg-4524564555820491916"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4524564555820491916WordSection1"><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_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…and the printing press….</span></b></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="m_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That press cannot print wealth. </span>Only currency</font></i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4"><b style="">So at last you<span class="gmail_default" style="">'ve </span>been able to answer <span class="gmail_default" style="">the</span> question for yourself<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>that you've been asking over and over again which<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> if you remember<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> was "<i style="">Where does the money come from?</i><span class="gmail_default" style="">" As for wealth, even without Nanotechnology AI can generate that.</span></b></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"><div class="msg-4524564555820491916"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4524564555820491916WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="m_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>This is the step you still haven’t explained.  Your theory is that at least four governors of the Federal Reserve have always been blithering idiots, morons, otherwise we wouldn’t have a problem?  Or that we can tolerate morons in that office now, but at some point in the future will not be able to manage with morons on that board? </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Assuming there are four non-morons and assuming that they agree with each other, they raise interest rates?  Is that your theory John?</span></i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div class="msg-4524564555820491916"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4524564555820491916WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">No. And I'm not going to explain something <u>AGAIN</u>  that should be obvious on day one to a first year economics 101 student.</font></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4524564555820491916gmaildefault"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>