Jeff Carlson: THE BULLSHIT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE PARTIES Republicans / Libertarians / Tea Party stand for giving everything to the Rich and to bad if you are not rich. The Democrats stand for the working people of this country From the Article: The larger Bubble Economy which had been “artificially juiced up” since the 1980s. (trickle down) If you accept this thesis, as most progressives do, there can be no going to back to pre-2008 “normality”— because from Reagan to George W. Bush the “normal” was abnormal and sustained only by the Keynesian stimulus provided by Reagan’s and George W. Bush’s military build-ups and the stock market and real estate bubbles fueled by tax cuts for the rich. (Conservatives oppose Keynesian stimulus in the form of productive infrastructure investment, but support Keynesian stimulus if it benefits rentiers, defense contractors, real estate speculators and money managers). In the progressive view, rebuilding a broken economy requires productivity-enhancing investment in manufacturing, innovation, infrastructure and education. In his speech, the president called for federal action in all four areas.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:27:30 +0000
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