[ExI] eput this crazy system out of our misery: was RE: Euthanasia

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:03 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> The fed can pay its debts with what it takes in now,


No Spike, it can not.

> but it will take deep cuts in what it spends.  Is it not clear to
> everyone on the planet that our military is of such a size that it is not
> sustainable?  We try to maintain the ability to simultaneously fight two
> wars, sheesh.  Let's work harder at keeping it to one or fewer at a time.
>  The cold war is over, we won, humanity won, let's get over that and find
> deep cuts.  Let's balance
> that with domestic cuts;


That's all well and good Spike and I agree with much of what you say, but
right now I'm not interested in the long term, I'm far far more interested
in the lurking catastrophe that is set to strike in just 7 days if we break
our promise and don't pay for things that we already bought.

  John K Clark
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