Back to episode — Episode 1306 Scott Adams - Stimulus Package Shenanigans, Voting Changes, Super Anti-Racists
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mean the accusations look credible anyway. I feel it's just a weird category where the person doing the crime is not necessarily aware that they're doing a crime, which doesn't make it excusable, right? The system is very clear. You don't have to be aware of it being a crime for it to be a crime. But it should end his political career, which is the only thing anybody cared about really on this. H…
← Previous segment →in the United States and you're from another country, you don't have health care coverage. So apparently there's some kind of insurance you can buy just for traveling, some kind of health care insurance, and it's pretty expensive.
So there's a whole bunch of things we could do as a country to make it easier and better for somebody to take a vacation here. Now if this had been our big industry when the coronavirus hit, we'd be in big trouble. But I still think travel and recreation are always going to be big. So I'll just put that out there. And then Costa Rica makes a big deal about keeping the water and air clean to keep tourism up, and we would have the same impulse. We'd want to keep the air and water as clean as possible. So I'll just put that out there.
So there's the stimulus package. Got passed by the Senate but now it goes back to the House to get a final final. And I see all these people arguing about the amount of the debt and what the debt should have been and people saying instead of 1.9 why didn't we make it 1.4? Nobody knows what the right amount of debt is. That's not really a thing. If you're arguing with any kind of certainty about what the number should have been, I don't think that you have any standing. There's nobody who knows what is the right amount and when to do it and what happens in the long term an
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d how do we pay down the debt and can we just print money and can we inflate it away. And nobody knows any of that. It's just completely unknowable. So I do understand that more debt seems worse, but it just hasn't worked out that way. Observation has not matched the theory. So I would just say having a firm opinion on the debt is a dicey situation now because even experts don't really know what'…
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