<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;background-color:transparent;color:inherit"> <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:inherit">> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><span style="background-color:transparent"> </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 lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"></span></b><u></u><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"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…If what you say is true then just as I suspected, the Libertarian Party is doomed to eternal irrelevance…</b></font></blockquote><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><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>The democrat candidate last time thought so too.</font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>So you're bragging about the fact that thanks to the <span class="gmail_default">Li</span>bertarian <span class="gmail_default">P</span>arty<span class="gmail_default"> we now have the most anti-libertarian president in American history? </span> </b></font></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><span style="background-color:transparent"> </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 lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><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 is it that the UK, France, Italy,</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway as well as nearly every other nation in Europe….<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><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Those countries are socialist. The USA is not. </font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If that's the key to the problem, if that's the reason that those countries have populations that are healthier and live longer than Americans do<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> then perhaps it's time for you to reconsider your total opposition to the thing that you call "socialism".</b></font><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><div><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…CAN afford to pay for something very much like Medicare for all<u> even though they are not as rich as the US?<br><u></u><u></u></u></span></b></blockquote></div></blockquote></span></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The people of the USA are richer than the people of Europe in general. But the governments of Europe are far richer than the government of the USA. The American government is the poorest government in world history, having the largest debt ever accumulated.</font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>That is pure unadulterated<span class="gmail_default"> </span>nonsense<span class="gmail_default">!</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span> The ratio of <span class="gmail_default">G</span>ross <span class="gmail_default">G</span>overnment <span class="gmail_default">D</span>ebt to<span class="gmail_default"> National GDP for Japan is about <u>twice</u> that of the USA, and yet they can afford universal healthcare for <u>ALL</u> their citizens, and as a result the average Japanese lives to be 85 while the average American lives to be 79. This is in spite of the fact that per capita the USA spends nearly <u>3 times</u> as much on healthcare as Japan does. And it's not just Japan, there are similar figures from dozens of other countries. There is just no getting around the fact that when it comes to healthcare "socialism" is MUCH more efficient then whatever you call the idiotically chaotic system that the USA uses. </span></b><b style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default">So as I said before, maybe it's time for you to reconsider your blanket condemnation of the thing that you call "socialism". </span></b></font></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><div><font size="4"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><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:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">And w</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">hy can I say the same thing about Japan, Taiwan and South Korea? They all have something like Medicare for all. AND <u>THEY ALL LIVE LONGER THAN AMERICANS!<u></u><u></u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It isn’t about their medical systems. Americans are rich enough to afford bad health habits.</font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Is that really the strongest rebuttal you can come up with?<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></font></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><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"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…I didn't predict that the billionaire tax will "pass" at the national level, I made no prediction about how it would come about, I just predicted that one way or another in three years or less we would have a stiff billionaire tax and an even stiffer trillionaire tax, or we would be dead….<u></u><u></u></span></b></blockquote><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><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>OK so you didn’t predict such a tax would pass at the national level, which I interpret as billionaire taxes at the state level. </font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Your interpretation is dead wrong. I predicted that in three years or less <span class="gmail_default">the USA </span>would have something like Medicare for all and a tax on billionaires and trillionaires unless AI kills us all first. I did <u>NOT</u> predict it would happen because the House and Senate passed legislation that the president then signed (although it might happen that way) I just predicted that one way or another it would happen.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>This <span class="gmail_default">Piker </span>jackass was certainly crude<span class="gmail_default"> but he was never a part of a Democratic administration and he never admitted to personally doing anything that was evil, but </span><span style="background-color:transparent">John McEntee<span class="gmail_default"> <u>WAS</u> part of the Trump administration and he <u>DID</u> admit to doing something evil. I think the Democrats should put this on an endless loop:</span></span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>John K Clark</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>
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