Saturday, February 3, 2018

What We Should Be Focused Upon

Instead of the FISA memo, alleged Russian collusion, and our broken immigration non-policy, here is what we should we focused upon:

The US economy is threatened by two giant problems which cause all others to pale into insignificance. We are referring to a rogue central bank that has become an absolute enemy of capitalist prosperity and a fiscal doomsday machine that is hostage to the ceaseless budgetary demands of the Warfare State, the Welfare State and the Baby Boom's demographic imperatives.

Needless to say, both ends of the Acela Corridor are completely oblivious to these twin menaces. Indeed, they are the proverbial elephants in the room, thereby giving rise to a considerable irony: To wit, the GOP party of the elephant, which is supposed to be the palladium of financial rectitude in American politics, has forgotten about them completely.

For instance, in his triumphalist SOTU, the Donald didn't utter so much as a single syllable about the Fed, the budget, entitlements, the $1 trillion per year deficits looming ahead or the nation's soaring public debt.  Yet after omitting virtually everything which counts, he went on to crow about how he is making America Great Again (MAGA) by making better trade deals and borrowing untold sums from future generations.

You can read the rest @
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/two-elephants-in-the-room-that-the-gop-has-completely-forgotten/

We all bear responsibility for the breaking of the US economy, with corporate CEOs and their co-conspirators in the financial world rising to the top of the list of culprits. "Our" government has completely failed us, refusing to tackle any of the truly important issues which threaten our nation.

We're not going to be "great again" ... not this way. And the sooner we face that and decide what to do about it, the better.

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