Posted on 07/29/2011 4:49:50 AM PDT by blam
This assertion does not make sense. It is true that people feeding off the government trough will have to find other work. But the trail off may not be immediate and precipitous. And people doing nothing to contribute to the economy cannot be much of a drag.
No doubt that it will be a painful exercise, but perhaps not as painful as a total economic collapse caused by continued spending far beyond our means. Russia's economy was chaotic for years after the collapse of Communism. Just look at where we are headed without some painful corrections.
Government employees laid off will not be able to SPEND their salaries but they were spending OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY, anyway.
How productive people spend their own money is healthier for a society than how government employees spend money confiscated from productive people.
That is what history teaches us.
“Government spending will fall by some $150 billion/month as expenses can’t exceed revenues.”
Well then, Mr. Mosler, that means the Government is spending $150 billion dollars a month TOO MUCH.
Bring the monthly budget down to match what comes in.
It’s so easy, a caveman can do it. (apologies to cavemen everywhere)
Nonsense.
Another “Breaking Windows Helps The Economy” zealot reporting in.
Why not spend a quadrillion dollars and pull the entire world out of this global economic quagmire?
That makes perfect sense as government spending is figured as part of the GDP. In other words, the huge increase in spending under King Barry is masking the fact that we are actually still in recession.
Just like in 1861, a couple of states are going to make a break for it. That's my hope and prediction. The sheeple don't realize they are in fact wearing the ruby slipers. "There's no place like our own sovereign state"
Fact: Projections are notoriously off to the extreme low side
Fact: 2 Trillion has been spent in the last 2 and 1/2 years, and Jobs continue to be lost at the rate of 398,000 per week (can you imagine that is being hailed as an improvement).
Quote: “Government can not solve the problem, Government IS the problem.”
Warren Mosler is a liberal economist who is running for Sen Dodd’s seat in Connecticut!
Is “Pragmatic Capitalism” anything like “compassionate coservatism?”
Thats the way it goes, numbnutz. Should we end up like Greece, Portugal, Spain, France? Stagnation forever and 20 % unemployment? No thanks, Mr Pragmatist.
Time to live within our means. Destroying the value of our currency and individual savings is no way to go through life, son.
We are seeing stores and restaurants close up at rates we can't believe! It's like a line of dominoes from day to day, corner malls have one or two stores left, and then the next weekend they're gone!
This is a full blown financial catastrophe. No doubt EXACTLY what obama wanted.
"Fed Chairman Bernanke mentioned that might reduce GDP by a full 6%."
We are now wise to the deconstruction of and dynamic definitions of words that the Progressives employ when lying about things such as unemployment, inflation, and budget "cuts". Thus we can expect Bernanke to lie about the GDP to serve his master's interest in destroying the West. If these people lie about most things, why would we ever expect them to the tell the Truth?
Essentially this is a throw-away statement by Bernanke since we don't know if the job of paper shuffling, lawsuits and regulation enforcement is calculated in his definition of "GDP".
Plus, creating legions of jobs for tax and compliance lawyers, HR employees, and industrial engineers to combat the explosion in growth of government interference and crippling of every industry is actually, to them, a good thing - yet might be what Bernanke is including in his definition of "GDP".
Using his logic, we can grow the "GDP", particularly the carpentry, animal shelter, funeral and psychological counseling industries by stepping up SWAT team raids.
Government does not produce revenue! They steal it from people and corporations that earn it!
There in lies the problem. One massive sector in government is the regulation and tax side that actually costs orders of magnitude more than the cost of underwriting the agency - for example the EPA. The budget of the EPA is miniscule compared to the financial havoc that it has caused. The EPA is a major reason why China makes all of our stuff. When a company relocates to anywhere on the planet to escape the nightmare of the Fe'ral Government and their legions of life destroying agencies we can count on more and more formerly productive people joining the ranks of the Takers who have now grown accustomed to leeching off your wallet while producing nothing.
That is why I am utterly convinced that the Ruling class are out to destroy the West in general and he US in particular. No where is there talk about getting rid of Obamacare before its system of roots makes it impossible later to pull. No one among the Ruling Class gives even a moment's though to eliminating or even mildly constraining the EPA, OSHA, FDA, FTC et al. While the Ruling class makes no hesitation to shut down the oil industry slapping a draconian moratorium on drilling, there is never a word breathed to even question the insane dictates of the EPA.
I'm sadly coming to the conclusion that as awful as the French Revolution was, that is preferable to what we are about to become.
” “Fed Chairman Bernanke mentioned that might reduce GDP by a full 6%.”
We are now wise to the deconstruction of and dynamic definitions of words that the Progressives employ “
Precisely...
Accurate and *honest* reporting of economic data, without changing anything else, would reduce GDP by *at least* 6%....
>>the idea that government spending is the engine of economic growth is a Keynesian fantasy disprovable by simple reference to historical fact.
While true, the sad reality is that a considerable portion of the populace has been brainwashed otherwise.
I fear it will get really ugly before it is over.
If Walter Mosler is a capitalist, it is of the crony capitalist type.
True free market capitalists understand the danger of government control of massive parts of the economy. This is the very heart of the fascist economic model. Far too few understand this.
The only way to build a true wealth-building economy is to get it out of the hands of government.
Bingo! Besides that we aren’t going to default on our debt, we have enough cash flow to pay our immediate obligations.
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