They know the federal deficit, far from being an economic problem is an economic necessity for growth. They know every depression in U.S. history has been introduced with federal surpluses, and nearly all recessions have been introduced with deficit reduction.
But in our climate of economic ignorance, Bernie and Stephanie are afraid to tell the truth to the public. It would be Galileo arguing with Pope Urban VIII.
Like poor, old Semmelweis, I've spent 20 years trying to help the public see what would benefit them, and the public has used those 20 years to respond with invective.
The facts are:
--The Gap between the rich and the rest is too wide and it's widening. The middle class is decimated and the poor are in worse shape than they were 20 years ago.
--The Gap could be reduced greatly, and the economy could prosper, by recognition of Monetary Sovereignty and by the implementation of the Ten Steps to Prosperity (below).
Imagine you are a doctor with morbidly obese patients, who also smoke. You try to show them how and why to lose weight and to stop smoking. But they tell you you're not only wrong, but angrily tell you're stupidly wrong. And your patients keep eating, keep smoking, and keep sickening and dying too soon.
At what point do you grow tired? At what point do you ask, "Why should I care, if they don't." At what point do you surrender? After all, my wife and I already have Social Security and Medicare and belong to country clubs and enough money to last us.
But then I think of my children and grandchildren and the world they will occupy, all because of national ignorance and the refusal to learn -- not just refusal, but angry, insulting refusal.
So I write yet one more article hoping that somehow this will be the one that causes the truth to prevail, but knowing it probably won't -- like the sucker hoping his lottery number will come through.
It's not that I have nothing else to do. I can write fiction and poetry. I can paint. I can keep playing tennis and schmoozing with my friends.
I tell myself, this is more important.
But, I really, really am growing weary of telling my obese, smoking, refusing-to-learn "patients" how they can live better, longer lives, when they don't seem to care about themselves.
I really, really am tired of "doing the Semmelweis."
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty
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