Reject Third Way propaganda, *especially* now.

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47. SCREW THE DEFICIT. A budget is a moral document, and there are more than one kind of debt.

Austerity in the honest context, would tax the super rich at 90%. Imposing it on the poor and unable is immoral. So is debt that produces nothing but more money and no tangible benefit, such as housing, food and a healthy world.

Many of us have been calling for a world-wide Jubilee to maintain social equality for forty years, this is not at all a new idea and it is the responsibility of the government. The Founding Fathers installed the bankruptcy laws to protect us. In the seventies we had free or almost free higher education, protection for homeowners, labor, immigrants, women, all of it.

Thirty years of misrule by the GOP took virtually all of the protection from predatory forces in the private sector and religious zealots that allowed people more freedom in their lives. Most of these ideas are not at all new and the government has to free itself of the regresssive neanderthals that screwed up our progressive system on those matters, and more.

It's not name calling and fingerpointing at Democrats that is going to change this, more activism in the election process is needed.