<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; ">βThe full consequences of a default β or even the serious prospect of default β by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and the value of the dollar.β</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- President Ronald Reagan on raising the debt ceiling (September 26, 1987)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/dire-warnings-on-debt-limit-hark-back-to-reagan/2011/05/14/AF0PJp3G_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/dire-warnings-on-debt-limit-hark-back-to-reagan/2011/05/14/AF0PJp3G_story.html</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">--------------------------------------------------------------<br></span></font><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div><div>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">and the Realist adjusts his sails."</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>