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mojowork_n

(2,354 posts)
Fri Jun 21, 2013, 01:47 PM Jun 2013

Can I have 8 seconds of your time? Class Warfare explained in 4 Bullet Points


  • Weasel-worded con jobs (See, Walker, Scott): Class Warfare masquerading as "job creation" (or hyper-inflated promises of same)


  • Only a very few really benefit: Class Warfare masquerading as "economic recovery." (As inequality increases)


  • Robin Hood in Reverse: Class war disguised as "business-friendly" tax policies. (The poor have only themselves to blame.)


  • Austerity Economics debunked by 28 year old: Class war disguised as "fiscal prudence"



  • Brief and to the point:

    As 28-year-old Thomas Herndon proved through debunking the entire basis for austerity economics, government debt doesn't slow economic growth -- rather, measures aimed at cutting government debt slow economic growth. And it always ends up with the poor sacrificing the little they have so the rich can keep theirs and continue to acquire more.

    All the numbers are out there to disprove the agendas perpetuated by Scott Walker and his ilk on the basis of economic panacea. The cruel process of depriving state governments of necessary funds to reward the corporate elite is nothing but class war.


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/4-ways-gop-governors-wage_b_3475101.html
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Can I have 8 seconds of your time? Class Warfare explained in 4 Bullet Points (Original Post) mojowork_n Jun 2013 OP
If ever I needed proof this was intentional, this was it: magellan Jun 2013 #1

magellan

(13,257 posts)
1. If ever I needed proof this was intentional, this was it:
Fri Jun 21, 2013, 02:25 PM
Jun 2013
Austerity Economics debunked by 28 year old: Class war disguised as "fiscal prudence"

And that was barely acknowledged by Washington, or by any country practicing austerity, except by one or two "experts" who argued feebly that the theory is right anyway.

Not to mention austerity was already debunked by its horrid effect on economies everywhere. Not one country that's embraced austerity has recovered. All it's done is further throttled the middle and lower classes while stoking the markets and making the rich richer.

You really have to be willfully blind not to see how bad things are at a fundamental level.
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