You, reader, are in danger of
loss of some Social Security and Medicare. Austerity - minded Congressmen like PaulRyan
now dominate both houses of Congress. The sweep Spite Vote of 2016 positioned
these "solons of budgeting," S.O.B.'s of social stinginess, for a "deal" with the
Republican Sultan of Spite, DonaldTrump. Beyond repeal of Obamacare,
they want cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, taxes, even food stamps
for the poor.
Trump wants expensive, long outdated,
futile vanity items: a $22 billion wall, $30 billion more now for war, plus $54
billion more for another "Surge," and $137 billion tax credits for private
infrastructure building. He's been inconsistent on social expenditures. What if
he and they reach a deal: The SOB's will approve his items, if he doesn't veto
their cuts to Social Security, Medicare, etc.?
The basis of Austerity was
the conservatives claim that counter - recessionary social spending (while the
deficit increased) would eventually bankrupt the U.S. This was a colossal lie. Even
Trump, in a May 10 TV interview, said there was no chance of bankruptcy,
because "you [the government] prints the money." That's "currency sovereignty."
Nor is hyperinflation an inevitable, disastrous consequence (see Volcker, Paul.)
Under currency sovereignty
"greenback" money is just created, without taxing to get it. The U.S. government
can spend greenbacks for infrastructure, Social Security, etc. without
increasing the national debt! To beat Austerity, learn the historical facts
about how greenbacks empowered the Revolutionary and Union
armies. Currency sovereignty is like a battery charger. A charge of, say, $1
trillion electronic greenbacks into federal accounts, for slow spending for
direct federal jobs in infrastructure and entitlements account maintenance,
national day care, etc., would restart our domestic economic engine. If we
don't shove these facts before eyes and into ears of legislators, newspaper
editors, and TV pundits , the SOB's, conservative
confiscators, may legally confiscate a lot of your general welfare entitlement
income.
I could be Bernie Sanders older brother by similarity. I was born in Manhattan, 1940, he, about a year later, in Brooklyn. I too am a white male American. A retired college professor of philosophy. We both were born of Jewish parents. I was (more...)
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