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"My grand scheme for long-term debt-reduction would improve the lives of tens of millions of people while saving everyone else a ton of money. It's an attempt to solve problems, rather than to luxuriate in enduring them and savoring the suffering they produce. And that goes against everything the serious people stand for.
And but so anyway, here is my plan, my GS for LTDR -- are you ready? -- it's short:
Cure diabetes.
That's it. That's my plan. Cure diabetes. Eradicate it. Create a post-diabetes world in which people say, "Hey, remember when there used to be diabetes? That sucked. Glad we got rid of that." The kind of world in which, 30 years from now, people dimly recall diabetes the way we now think of polio or scurvy. "What's diabetes?" young children will ask, mispronouncing the word in some adorably innocent way. "Oh, that's just a disease people used to have a long time ago," their parents will say.
Cure diabetes. That's my plan."
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Darth Magritte, I presume.
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