Bernie Sanders proposed a monthly stimulus of $2000, hardly a king’s ransom when you consider that tens of millions of people have lost their jobs entirely. Instead, Joe Biden promised $2000, one time, and then reduced it to $1400 after taking into account $600 paid out by Donald Trump toward the end of his term. Now he’s caving in to moderate Democrats like Joe Manchin of West Virginia and subjecting the payments to increased means testing. The patient, the American economy, is dying. But there’s no sense of urgency whatsoever on the part of the White House or the US Congress.
True Horror, Courtesy of the Cabinet of Dr. Biden
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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“When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on.
When a man spends someone else’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn’t care at all how much he spends.
And when a man spends someone else’s money on someone else, he doesn’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that’s government for you.”
— Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman
That’s why Obama spent trillions of dollars to bail out the bankers.
Without that cash infusion where would the the casino bankers come up with the money to give Obama so he could buy his fancy 13 million dollar mansion in Martha’s Vineyard?
Milton Friedman is an ass.
There is no Nobel prize for economics. The scumbag economists made up their own prize named “In honor of Nobel’ since respectable society wouldn’t have any part of them.
The scumbag economists made up their own prize
Exactly – the worst of the scumbags (the neoliberals) made up this farce with collusion from Swedish politicians… to pull it off they had to hoodwink lesser scumbags and even somewhat decent scholars into accepting the prize in the odd year, but kept most of them for themselves.
Philip Miroswki dug into this mess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtEo8lplwg
So we’ve got the world’s most expensive military. Why? I don’t ask that politically, I ask that logically. Is Mexico going to invade us? Maybe a pincer movement when the Giant Hordes from Up North invade for our potato and gravy supplies in order to keep their poutine taps flowing?
We are just about the least invadable country there is. We could get rid of basically 90% of the military. We’ve got nukes that can be launched from submarines. Whoever invades us will be writing letters home to a sea of cooling trinitite, at least until the lab rats cook up some pathogens that kill the rest of the population of whoever was foolhardy enough to try invading in the first place.
My point is this: if we simply mothballed the whole military (except for a skeleton force), we could give everyone $2,000 a week, let alone a month.
Without 800+ bases in countries all over the world who would select rulers for these countries?
The US certainly wouldn’t want to let other people select their own leaders because the American Subjects of Oligarchy might become jealous and get ideas.