"We are in a State of COLLAPSE - This is WORSE than Recession!" - Jeffrey Sachs Warning

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29. I 99% agree

He looks like one of the few major figures in this country that actually knows what is going on.

The one area I would disagree, to an extent is that other countries caught up to and are over taking us.

While that is true, to me, it was more that we have chosen to diminish ourselves in a way that allowed that to occur. It was 100% self inflicted and primarily because we as a country chose to indulge right wing fuck wittery.

Rider - dems mostly are better on the big things, but also have been side kicks, either as willing go alongs or not fighting things hards enough.

Ex. to his point about electric cars and how China is way better positioned, well ... Right wing lunacy about BURNING COAL and everything they have done going back to Reagen tearing Jimmy Carter's solar panels off the White House.