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Related: About this forumIt's Time for Massive Government Spending to Avert a Coming Economic Crisis
This scary article was posted in Barrons 4 hours ago, what do you think?
[Article: https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-solution-to-deflationary-trends-is-massive-fiscal-spending-51567794850|
Seems some honest editorials are starting to pop up.
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It's Time for Massive Government Spending to Avert a Coming Economic Crisis (Original Post)
Desert Dem
Sep 2019
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RainCaster
(13,478 posts)1. Fuck the spending- how about retracting those Golden Gifts to the top .1%?
elleng
(141,926 posts)2. Combo? Put $$$$ in hands where it will be spent quickly.
Auggie
(32,999 posts)3. Thanks for posting. It won't happen -- not with Trump in charge...
the plutocracy welcomes, or rather, wants catastrophe. Their disaster capitalism plans are thought-out and ready to implement: repeal of the ACA; privatization of social security and Medicare; rollback of environmental laws; etc. Pro-corporate, anti-consumer legislation is coming our way, with courts loaded with newly confirmed conservative judges itching to support
Were living The Shock Doctrine right now.
