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HughBeaumont

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9. His nonsense about "creating jobs" . . .
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:11 PM
Feb 2017

. . . is almost as patently hilarious in the face of near-pure Capitalism's brilliant long-term "plan" of underpaying/not employing an entire generation that it just indebted beyond it's ability to purchase; this while simultaneously mass-firing workers from the two preceding generations, whose spending is one of the few things propping up the consumer-based economy.

Oh, and I'd sure like to hear their solution to automation. Costly college? Lower-wage retail jobs? A Guaranteed Minimum Income that's never going to come to pass in Protestant Work Ethic-addled, "earn yer keep" America?

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