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Back to episode — Episode 2279 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/01/23, Solving US Debt Problem And More

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nd I think he could make a very good story that would say what we're doing with energy and what we're doing with new tech and robots and AI and quantum computing. And he's going to have to make an argument that we need a second industrial revolution. We need to bring our manufacturing back from China in the smartest way. You know not in a complete way but in the smartest way so that we're manufact…

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e rest of us will do for the next hundred years? Now I saw some push back on that because I said it on X and the push back was but Scott all of these ancient people they've got kids they've got grandkids of course they care about them so they care about the future as much as anybody does. To which I replied have you met people? Let me explain something about people. They really do make selfish decisions and they really do follow the money even if it's bad for their grandkids. That's people. Now I'd love to tell you that there are people making the grandkid decision and there are but I don't think that's what drives the politicians. I think they say to themselves I could try to solve an unsolvable problem and fail which is how to get the debt down or I could just vote for one more omnibus bill and I'm going to be dead in a few years anyway. You know it's never going to come back to bite me. And then they'd say well grandchildren will work it out. You know life's never been easy. Grandkids will work it out one way or the other. So I think it does make a big difference that the people voting on the debt are 100 years old. I suggest the following fix. That the only members of Congress who can vote on debt, long-term debt, have to be under 50 years old. And if you're over 50 you can't vote on debt or any kind of spending bill. And then I would say public you are free to elect anybody you want. If you'd like your representative to be over 50 just know that your state will not be involved in any of the budget decisions. They can talk about it but they don't get to vote. Because letting people who won't be here to pay the debt decide how much debt you have is a stupid system. And if you think that having them having grandkids is going to save you that's no

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t how people work. They just don't. I wish they did but they don't. So that'll never happen but might be the only way to survive. There's a new study that says two of the things that predict a marriage lasting. There are two factors psychologists found. One is that the man has high verbal intelligence. Does that surprise you? If the man has high verbal intelligence what goes along with high verba…

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