I have come to the terrifying conclusion that you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. This is particularly true if you are a project - oriented person. 4 years ago, the IPCC gave us 12 years. We are down to 8 years and things have only gotten worse. Still so few talk #MMT
Honestly, once you make the decision... once you accept the science... climate catastrophe could lead to yet another mass extinction. We are not educating the world fast enough that we can afford to survive. Too many deniers of both climate crisis & #MMT to counter rampant idiocy
There is simply no time left to placate the precious sensibilities that serve as a gatekeeper to our collective survival. Every single day we allow the naysayers grown up status, we are that much closer to the brink. Our kids deserve better than #MMT and Climate Crisis deniers
If people play the paddycake time... just show me the 8 year plan that mitigates the effects of climate change so that we are good to go... If that is not something you can produce (and you cannot do it! trust me on that one...) then someone needs to pocket their egos & #LearnMMT
Doesn't it induce rage that you are being killed by someone refusing to learn so we can fight back? I feel like a caged animal thrashing against my restraints as I see people willfully ignore the above truths.

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May 7
I saw a disturbing comment from someone I don't believe I ever interacted with in my life. Their comment moved me so much I believe I am going to write a series of articles about it.

Let me start with the following:

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1. For 40 plus years, the neoliberal era has reigned.
During that time, people have had little by way of resistance from the lies, deceit and self imposed prisons of ineffectual domestic governance and austerity.
2. The lies were baked into the school system, newspapers, sit comms, political debates even cartoons took the ideas of neoliberalism into the hearts and minds of our children...the people.
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Apr 20
So the plan is always to privatize as much as possible all in the name of creating markets.

This is neoliberalism.

It can only thrive based on lies.

Based on the idea that the government is broke, in debt to foreign nations or conspiracies like the Rothschilds etc.

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It can only thrive as long as you believe that your "hard earned tax dollar" is paying for someone's bad decisions.

They can make the case repeatedly that we cannot afford to do nice things.
Worthlessly, many in the political sphere advance this lie and we believe them. We allow them to represent us with falsehoods.
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Apr 2
MMT is an accurate description of How our underlying operational realities work today.

So to deny how that is presents a barrier to progressive programs and services.

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So... yes.... if you are blocking the knowledge of how to get a progressive agenda accomplished TODAY you have placed unnecessary blockers in front of saving lives.
More over, if the planet is in such precarious environmental shape, you do not have time to tear it all down, rebuild, hope conservatives and others go along.
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Mar 17
The pandemic of neoliberalism continues to take more lives than any of us seem prepared to accept.

More than wars.

More than viruses.

And media/party propaganda keeps it going and we are the carriers of the disease...
Every single time we asks the Federal Government "How ya gonna pay for it?" Someone dies for that lie.
Every single time we act as though the Federal Government is at the mercy of taxes to fund Programs someone dies for that lie.
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Mar 16
Malta: currency issuer. Malta with a central bank. Malta has the Maltese Lira.
The NHS run by Currency issuing UK with the Bank of England as the currency issuer.
Washington State: Currency user. Cannot issue it's own currency.

Someone isn't talking MMT.
If this isn't a base case that is being ignored... Nothing else is. Read this short, simple to understand PDF by Randall Wray at the Levy Institute of Bard College. Let me know when to break out the white out... The red lining of this document...

levyinstitute.org/pubs/Wray_Unde…
Here is a great video going all the way back to 2010 by @wbmosler the post from 2012.

This is a rudimentary as it gets.
Currency issuer. Currency user.

moslereconomics.com/2012/05/23/iss…
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Mar 13
Have you ever sat back and wondered why we never see actual progressive policies enacted? Have you ever wondered why we always get stuck at "how are you gonna pay for it?"

Yeah... me too...
That led me to this... and it is the fact...

Our nation is monetarily sovereign... a state currency issuer... the currency is free floating as in not pegged or tied to another currency or commodity like "petrodollars" or "banana dollars" or gold, chicken necks or frog legs.
And Fiat (by decree)... in other words... Our Federal Government is God of the dollar.

Taxes do not fund spending... but they do drive the NEED for our CURRENCY (US Dollars) and ensure that there is a demand for the currency. If you don't have dollars, you can't pay your taxes.
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