The Oppressive Free Lunch
If one or two progressive leaders would just make the effort to inform themselves how a modern, sovereign fiat currency actually functions, they’d realize “paying for it” is actually the easiest part.
If one or two progressive leaders would just make the effort to inform themselves how a modern, sovereign fiat currency actually functions, they’d realize “paying for it” is actually the easiest part.
The truth about federal finance used to be common household knowledge, maybe it should be again.
If you’ve been watching the news, you’ll have noticed that the narrative of the moment is the debt ceiling. From the mainstream media to the independent, media outlets are discussing the debt ceiling using the exact same status quo narrative of “federal taxes fund federal spending”. Federal taxes do not fund federal spending. Congressional appropriations …
So, who is responsible for this fiasco? Or for the last one? Or the next? Any reasonable person can see that the present system is untenable.
Inadequate access to nutrition is a problem Americans can solve. It’s time to shut down the false narratives about pay-fors that keep solutions out of reach.
Bernie gave up on the fight long before we did and his actions have made it clear he no longer fights for the same ideals.
What power actually fears is that their carefully crafted illusions will go up in smoke.
Our final apocalypse has not yet arrived, but many of us feel with instinctive clarity that it’s coming…
We need to slash our obscenely large and lethal military, but cutting military spending means less money entering our communities.