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In reply to the discussion: What's with the no New Deal? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)and seems to come with big profits for corporations and less self determination and broad prosperity for the people.
Most of what is presently "realistic" is net negative and/or wasteful costing a lot for minimal benefits and then horse traded to include a lot of toxic baggage and nonsensical give aways to the wealthy and the corporations essentially little flecks of copper (there is no gold or even silver, best we get is bronze) surrounded by a lot of feces that cannot be picked away.
"Realistic" seems to include imperialism, lots of too big to fail, education deform, shitloads of fracking, opening up sensitive environments to drilling, ineffective and even counter-productive tax policy, and more job killing "free trade".
We need to be pushing for a lot less presently "realistic" legislation so that it will be plausible in a future that isn't to late to make corrections and we sure as hell need to stop passing crap just to be able to claim we did ***something*** because the hole we are in just gets deeper.