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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post Inculpatory evidence, Medicare, and voter suppression by ubetchaiam.
Bruce, when I advocate Medicare for All, I mean HR 676, the Conyers- Kucinich bill. It covers every basic health problem has mental health coverage, and covers it all fully and without co-pays. The bill is only 35 pages and is a no bullshit bill. It just covers health problems. Period. The lack of willingness [...]
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Three, Are There Spending Constraints On Governments Sovereign in Their Currencies? by letsgetitdone.
Hi papau, I think our biggest problem is getting our government under our control. That has nothing to with MMT. Right now our government is not representing us. It is out of control in so many ways that we can’t even begin to count them. It is not because the Government is big. It’s been [...]
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Three, Are There Spending Constraints On Governments Sovereign in Their Currencies? by letsgetitdone.
Thank you, Bruce.
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Three, Are There Spending Constraints On Governments Sovereign in Their Currencies? by letsgetitdone.
Thank you for following it. I believe we need to build a head of steam opposing austerity through the summer and Fall this year. The danger is that the social safety net will be severely damaged in the lame duck session. Peterson comes out every spring with his annual opening propaganda campaign for austerity. Then [...]
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letsgetitdone wrote a new diary post: The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Three, Are There Spending Constraints On Governments Sovereign in Their Currencies?
An issue at the core of all the fuss about fiscal sustainability is Government solvency. The deficit hawks and doves believe that Governments sovereign in their own currency can run out of money if they keep deficit spending, and keep borrowing to do it. They believe that if deficit/debt levels are high enough, then Government [...]
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Two, Defining Fiscal Sustainability by letsgetitdone.
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Two, Defining Fiscal Sustainability by letsgetitdone.
Sorry. I forgot to check for you. Not so much deflation; but it does have to do with the debt ceiling crisis and how to get around it.
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post Eliminating the ‘99%’ Can Lead to a Better Message for Social Justice by brasch.
eaxactly my sentiments, papau.
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post Eliminating the ‘99%’ Can Lead to a Better Message for Social Justice by brasch.
For the record, I don’t mind the reference to your book, Walter. It seems a legitimate credential to me, and I’m an author myself. Wendy, it’s not as though he took out an ad, exactly, is it? -:) -:) -:)
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post Eliminating the ‘99%’ Can Lead to a Better Message for Social Justice by brasch.
I really strongly disagree with this, and I believe you entirely miss the point of the 99%. What we’re seeing in the US today is the development of a plutocratic oligarchy. There are certainly members of that oligarchy who are generous and caring in what they do. In fact, one might even be able to [...]
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post Belief in no growth – What’s a Billionaire to do? [Part II] by Synoia.
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Two, Defining Fiscal Sustainability by letsgetitdone.
Thanks, Bruce. Nice post! Have you seen this one?
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post Belief in no growth – What’s a Billionaire to do? [Part II] by Synoia.
That’s why we have to break the Petersons of this world!
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letsgetitdone wrote a new diary post: The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Two, Defining Fiscal Sustainability
(Cross-posted from Correntewire.com) One of the most irritating things about the deficit hawk/austerity literature, is that it uses the ideas of “fiscal sustainability” and “fiscal responsibility” in an ideological way, without ever really analyzing or explaining these labels. It’s almost as if the austerians know that if they clearly and directly stated what they meant by [...] -
letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part One by letsgetitdone.
It is! But it takes a little money to put it together. Lat time it was a little ragged, and we did it on about $5,000. I wouldn’t want to try it again with less than $20K so we wouldn’t have to scramble to do it right and get the results out quickly. And I [...]
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part One by letsgetitdone.
There’s a lot of push-back and she’s backed up since. Also, there’s a lot more time to go until the election. Nothing will be done until the lame duck. If Europe collapses in the next few months it’s crisis time again for the banks. Also, the whole system will be threatened again, and Wall Street [...]
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letsgetitdone wrote a new diary post: The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part One
(Cross-posted from Correntewire.com) Well, it’s Springtime in DC. Time for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s annual event. The Fiscal Summit , to be held on May 15, better named the Fiscal Cesspool of distortions, half-truths and lies, is a propaganda extravaganza designed to maintain and strengthen the Washington and national elite consensuses on the existence of a debt [...] -
letsgetitdone commented on the diary post How Can an Election Result be “Shrill?” by Dean Baker.
I wonder how long it will be until the WaPo is insolvent? What constituency do they serve these days? Peterson and the deficit hawks? Maybe we should all become concern trolls for WaPo just as they insist on being concern trolls for a Government with a non-convertible fiat currency having a floating exchange rate and [...]
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post Hear Ye,Hear Ye, whither the Democratic Convention? by ubetchaiam.
They ought to go to work for Jill Stein and see how far they can take her. If she starts showing up in the polls by the end of August then maybe there’ll be an opening in the corporate solidarity front.
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letsgetitdone commented on the diary post National Jobs Guarantee *Sign the Petition* by SenatorGovernment.
Me too. But I did sign the petition, anyway.
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