Austerity is a Lie.

[Overseas]

38. It has been absurd to watch. "Supply side" economics has been revealed as a fiction, and yet the

pretending goes on.

The American people voted for more money into the hands of the 98%-- Demand Side economics. They know that if their fellow citizens have more cash in hand their local businesses will do better.

They also know that we need a new wave of government spending on infrastructure to better cope with the ravages of climate change and green our power grids.

We the people have seen the charts on where the money has been going and we are ready for change and voted for change, not austerity.

Change for us is acknowledging the positive role government can play if it puts our tax dollars where we want them to go and gets a more appropriate share of revenue from corporations and the top 2 percent.

I am so frustrated that it continues to be considered a "given" that going against an acknowledged fiction would be a Big Sacrifice for Republicans.