It's The Debt, Stupid!

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Nearly thirty years ago Bill Clinton won the presidency with four simple words which summed up the failures of Bush the Elder’s administration… “It’s the economy, stupid.” In January, Joe Biden took ...

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Yongshunn
2021-03-18
Yongshunn
Fear can be opportunity
mandyc
2021-03-18
mandyc
Definitely
_J_R_
2021-03-18
_J_R_
Please please comment! Thank you!
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It intends to destroy the current economy and build it back better by taking total control over the flow of capital via surveillance and digital money.\nThey sell this to their constituency as a sustainable and green economy, an equitable one built on the false premise that capitalism is unfair.\nWhich brings me back to Bill Clinton and his four words that won the presidency back in 1992.\nPolitically, the Democrats are committing hari kiricontinuing this fear campaign.  Most people don’t want to live in fear. Most people went along with this out of politeness, not ideology.\nThey are fleeing the states with the most draconian laws concerning COVID.\nTheir businesses are gone.  Their children depressed if not suicidal.\nThe fear is a narrative to mask the real problem we’re facing, which the World Economic Forum and the Democrats know all too well.\nThe unsustainability eating away our economy isn’t a function of capitalism’s rapaciousness, it’s a function of debt.  While debt has its 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