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Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,us.politics Subject: Re: OT: America could go bankrupt : Musk Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:13:23 GMT Message-ID: <vfkp6k$3f8k$1@solani.org> References: <vff719$1c300$1@solani.org> <vff7lq$30vnv$4@dont-email.me> <671b2a78$2$1428050$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <vffk2n$1ca7p$1@solani.org> <671d5f01$2$2873013$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:13:24 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="113940"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (Linux-5.15.32-v7l+) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DIT73MdZpE/ZOZKNVSD0HcJj3gY= X-Newsreader-location: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (c) 'LIGHTSPEED' off line news reader for the Linux platform NewsFleX homepage: http://www.panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ and ftp download ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/news/readers/ X-User-ID: eJwNyrkBwCAMA8CV4hczDkL2/iOE6poLS8m7PCM9JiY/7XrMofZeEgB31TVXNIbUGDN+KTTJpuBs4EWrcrv1A2XSFc0= Bytes: 4304 Lines: 61 On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:28:33 -0400) it happened bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in <671d5f01$2$2873013$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>: >On 10/25/2024 4:15 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote: >> On a sunny day (Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:20:55 -0400) it happened bitrex >> <user@example.net> wrote in <671b2a78$2$1428050$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>: >> >>> >>>>> This is not the first time the tech billionaire has sounded the alarm >>>>> over US debt. >>>>> Earlier this year, Musk said that the current rate of government >>>>> spending was putting the US in the fast lane to bankruptcy, >>>>> and that government overspending was stoking inflation. >>>>> >>>>> In September, he wrote that every trillion dollars of debt added is >>>>> money that “our kids and grandkids are going to have to pay somehow.” >>>>> If debt keeps growing at this pace, Musk warned, the US will be >>>>> trapped in a vicious cycle where “the only thing we’ll be able to pay >>>>> is interest.” >>>>> You can share this story on social media: >>>> >>>> The simple - if nasty - solution to this problem is inflation. Let the >>>> dollar inflate and the debt (and the cost of servicing it) dwindles. >>>> >>>> People will stop lending you money denominated in terms the inflating >>>> currency, so it does effectively bankrupt the country. It has happened >>>> from time to time and the countries involved have survived. >>>> >>>> Musk doesn't know as much history as he should. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Milton Keynes wrote: "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite >>> exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some >>> defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, >>> distill their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." >>> >>> Almost like he had Musk in mind. He seems to lift his ideas on debt from >>> dead neo-Austrians and his ideas on money as a "database for resource >>> allocation"/information theory from dead Marxists. >> >> I dunno how Musk does it, but I somehow like his succcess >> Tesla shares are way up as sales had an unexpected plus. >> He saved the bo[e]ing astronuts and Starlink really works >> He just landed a rocket with booster at the launch tower, with 'chopsticks', amazing! >> I would vote for him as president if I could. >> Maybe that would save 'merrica from becoming a fourth world country. >> As opposed to The radiating youash ashes that would follow a chameleon demorat win ... > >Remember when people were worried about the government/industry spying >on them? > ><https://fortune.com/2024/10/18/twitter-x-privacy-policy-update-ai-user-data-trump-court/> > >Now people give it away for free! Really the most helpful fashion of citizen I sort of assume 'they' know everything 'bout me that leaves room to play <them> The secret commienukation I do with birds carrying micro SDcards, all data exored with Pi. I trust you guys not to tell Annie Boddy