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Celebrating Robbie Burns—for all the wrong reasons?
Marc Joseph commented on Stephen Hume's comment in Commentary
How dare you pop our carefully nurtured fantasies? I'll nae goo to tha' bi''er reali'y wi'ou' a figh'!! Bu' firs', slainte! -
Celebrating Robbie Burns—for all the wrong reasons?
Marc Joseph commented on Rochelle Baker's report in Reporting
How dare you pop our carefully nurtured fantasies? I'll nae goo to tha' bi''er reali'y wi'ou' a figh'!! Bu' firs', slainte! -
This is the scam. The C$ exists because they fed gov says it does. How can there be a shortage? The erroneous perception of a shortage is how they control us. Hume has no idea, which is normal. It's unfortunate that writers with a following perpetuate the indoctrination.
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Great article, except for the part on the numbers. Hopefully it will dawn on us that the financial costs are irrelevant. The economic discussion is used for fearmongering, easy to do when people generally don't understand that money is just numbers on a computer screen. The rigid adherence to capitalism's rules of accounting can be thrown out the window. The powers that be will continue to insist on "fiscal prudence", but we mustn't let that fool us into thinking we "don't have the money" and we mustn't let it stop us from solving the many problems that beset us. Indeed, these problems are the direct result of general ignorance around money, where it comes from, and an inability to recognise that the mountains of debt will never be paid off, its not meant to be paid off, and it needs to be thrown off. There is no shortage of money, so let's stop worrying about it.
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"I mean, please, provide me with some novel explanation, something I haven’t yet considered, to help me to understand how, even with all of these targeted resources, a vast, socially damaging problem coalesces and endures?" Have you considered class warfare? There is a brutal reality being exposed by the pandemic. We are now seeing governments around the world all of a sudden funding programs to keep "the economy" afloat, much like how all of a sudden there were vast amounts of money for fighting WW2. It's well-known that a sovereign country with its own currency can fund anything it wants to, and they often do. So we should all be asking ourselves, why are there foodbanks, poverty, and homelessness? And the unpleasant answer is that these are policy decisions. Do they reflect what may be the true role of government: to keep the people down and the elite in control? Apparently. It's not a secret that in truth there is no shortage of money, but it flies under the radar, and we are living the results of that ignorance.