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   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:35:30 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
      
   > Zepp wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 18 May 2013 06:33:20 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> >Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>>> >>Republicans have been building deficits into the system for 30   
   >>>> >>years, but that's only okay if they run the show. When someone else   
   >>>> >>is trying to clean up their mess they whine about how the Dem is   
   >>>> >>running a deficit.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >For the record, I was extremely pissed off when W racked up 4.3   
   >>> >trillion dollars in new debt.   
   >> You must have felt lonely, since most Republicans and libertarians   
   >> seemed quite content to follow Dick Cheney's lead and declare that   
   >> deficits don't matter.   
   >   
   > Republicans maybe, but never libertarians.   
   >   
   > There are two kinds of people in this world, and they can be pegged by   
   > their attitude toward receiving a credit card in the mail.   
   >   
   > One type of person goes, "Cool, I now have a machine that allows me to   
   > apply my projected future earnings to the present time to purchase items   
   > such as a car or a large television set priced somewhat beyond my   
   > current ability to pay on an instantaneous basis, with the caveat that   
   > there are friction costs associated with that machine in the form of   
   > interest charges."   
   >   
   > The other type of person goes, "Betsy-Rae, says here the credit limit is   
   > ten thousand dollars!  YEE HAW!   We just got TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN   
   > THE MAIL!  Lets go to WalMart and max that sucker out!!!!"   
      
   I'm curious to see how starting two wars, setting up a police state,   
   telling the drug store to charge whatever they want for your   
   prescriptions, and in effect asking the landlord to raise the rent fit   
   into your intelligent approach toward debt.   
      
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