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Austerity is Murder🌹 Profile picture
8 Aug
So the Dem presidential candidate isn't taking money from every lobbyist under the sun?

So Biden isnt anti-medicare for all in the middle of a pandemic?

So he didn't write the racist crime bill of '94?
He didn't support the war in Iraq?

So Biden didnt make it harder for people to file bankruptcy and impossible to file bankruptcy on student loans?

So Biden didnt support NAFTA?

So Biden didnt support the Patriot Act?

So Biden wasn't anti-gay marriage?
So Biden didnt try to cut Medicare & Social Security multiple times?

So Biden didnt try to make abortion a states rights issue?

So all of these policies he wrote and supported didnt lay the ground work for a Trump Presidency by making desperate people vulnerable to Trump?
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8 Aug
It's amazing people do not understand the U means Universal in #UBI.

It's amazing that people do not understand that a UBI is not revolutionary and represents the status quo.

It's amazing that people do not realize we ALREADY HAVE a Basic Income or a BI in Social Security
It's amazing that people would fight AGAINST a #JobGuarantee that eliminates the stranglehold employers have on benefits, mobility and setting the wage floor.
It's amazing that people do not realize.that a #UBI is a Trojan Horse that Libertarians are begging for to eliminate the social safety nets and all government programs.
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8 Aug
What is a "buffer stock" in terms of employment?

When people are unemployed, they make up a buffer stock of unemployed, potential workers for "the man".
They are a buffer... they are the stock should "the man" decide he needs more labor, the unemployed "buffer stock" makes up some of his low price options.

But employers like to hire employed people. They make some key assumptions:
An employed person is able to hold a job, has better hygiene for work and is more practiced in labor and able to slide over and perform the work required.

Is that true?

Maybe, maybe not... but one thing is for sure...
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8 Aug
What is austerity?

Most do not use the word unless they are economists or activists fighting for economic justice.
Austerity is the belief and act that economies fix themselves by cutting spending and raising taxes. Reducing government services to the poor is an outcome of austerity. The false belief in scarcity of dollars.
Austerity is imposed, not sought. Austerity is what was imposed on Greece since that had debt denominated in a currency they were not the sovereign issuer of.
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7 Aug
Economic ignorance has led to millions and millions of people thinking it is their hard earned tax dollar paying for "illegal immigrants" and a lack of a Federal Job Guarantee is what is making the same millions of people think the "illegals" are stealing their jobs. 1/x
And since millions and millions of white Americans are severely impoverished, broken and barely surviving, they feel they are competing with these "damn Mexicans and Muslims", "thugs" and other minority communities struggling even worse for generations.
Millions and millions of people on the left not to be outdone by those "evil people on the right" believe that we have to raise taxes and punish people for the past when neoliberalism has already exacted a HEAVY price on every one that is not part of the Plutocracy.
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28 Jul
Ya know the Dem Enter folks shaming those who are not VBNMW? I am sure you have seen them... they come to your groups... come to your wall... telling you about how 3rd parties can't win and you are wasting your vote...
Well... it's time we stop allowing their bullshit to infect the public discourse.

We just got screwed by the DNC yet again.

Its time to fight back.
Voting is the smallest issue here, especially with rigged primaries that aren't even faking legitimacy any longer.
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