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29. Not true. It was the rise of Milton Friedman crackpot economics that did it.

Sun Dec 11, 2016, 01:22 PM

Dec 2016

It started in the mid-1970s, around the time this crackpot received the Nobel Prize (he got it in 1976), with one of the first countries employing those crackpot theories Chile under the murderous regime of Pinochet, and far too many political bigwigs were enthralled with it.

It has nothing to do with technology or any other factor.

Our country became slaves to a libertarian, crackpot CULT, and we have been paying the price ever since.

It has polluted BOTH political parties despite the fact it does NOT work.

Read the Barlett and Steele books beginning with the first one published in 1992 which pinpoint what happened.

The ruination of this country was a DELIBERATE political strategy to destroy living standards in the United States. It was all part and parcel of the neolib cult although Barlett and Steele do not say much about Friedmanomics. You had to live through the times to know it was chiefly responsible.

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