Jeffrey Sachs Makes Some Sane Arguments on Our Budget Priorities
Jeffrey Sachs was actually allowed some air time on Morning Joe to make a lot of really great points about how America is spending our money in the midst of what's being called a budget crisis. I would argue that we don't have a budget crisis. We have a refusal to levy adequate taxation on those that can afford it "crisis" created by our politicians who refuse to raise taxes on the rich at at time in our history that resembles the Gilded Age with income disparity. As Sachs noted, we're going after discretionary spending which hits in is words, science, education, technology, and energy and he's exactly right on how our approach to what we should be cutting is completely wrong.
As he noted we're not going after the extreme amount of waste in our military industrial complex, we're not fixing the amount of profits going to the insurance companies that are driving up the cost of our health care, the oil industry and corporate tax evasion. Instead we're looking to cut programs that harm the working class in America and I just want to say thank you to Jeffrey Sachs for laying out there how wrong headed our economic policies in the United States have been for at least the last thirty years.
Scarborough's response of course was to say that our working class and our seniors just haven't given quite enough so the oligarchs can keep their pockets lined. Brzezinski to her credit, pointed out that her father said if this keeps up we might see people taking to the streets and that he was called crazy for saying so. She didn't lay it on her buddy Scarborough and said he might not have been the one that said it, but I have the feeling that he was exactly who she was talking about and she gave him a pass. Of course Joe thought it was a good time to go to commercial break after she pointed that out to him.
I'm wondering if they'll have Sachs on again any time soon since he dared to speak the truth on that show. I'm not holding my breath for him to get another chance to say what he did today.
There is the truth and then there are other very valid positions contrary to the truth. (/snark)
I'm guessin' Sachs will be smeared.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
THAT'LL fill the budget hole! Can't shake down the rich, they might cry, or threaten to send jobs overseas, or hold their breath, or whatever, fuck 'em.
Too bad Kenny was never alive at the end of an episode to grow up and became a salad chef at a Burgermaster.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
Morning Joe hates this fact and wants to change the subject, move along, move along, or lets get back to the workers and Seniors not paying enough.
Ministerbruce
yes, the rich are waging war on the middle class and everyone should be fighting against the rich. And all the middle class right wingers who are voting away their own futures, is just shameful.
" middle class right wingers who are voting away their own futures"
Are classless.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
"We have a refusal to levy adequate taxation on those that can afford it "crisis" created by our politicians who refuse to raise taxes on the rich at at time in our history that resembles the Gilded Age with income disparity."
Really?
I must say that is troubling for you isn't it? That companies would be taxed to bring good into the USA would be an outrageous act of terrorism!!! (sigh)
Tell us how this is going to change anything? Tell us how this is going to beat back the GOP and FNC?
It isn't... Well it won't... Sorry to piss in your Wheaties, but this isn't going to do sh*t for me or anyone else out there.
What will do something for me and the rest of the people that have no jobs is the repeal of all free trade agreements. When you and the "Professional Left" decide to pull your head out of your asses and take up the drive to bring the jobs back let me know...
just as soon as you and everyone else agrees to work for $2.00 a day.
As Warren Buffett famously noted, he's paying a lower share of taxes than his secretary. The rich have it good. If they paid their fair share, none of this would be happening. There is enough money in the world for everyone to have a decent quality of life. The rulers just don't want the vast majority of us to have that.
especially about defense, and scarborough is a tool, but that's not what worries me, oh no, it's the fact that the "post-industrial" paradigm that has been pushed for years in our country is not challenged at all, at all. fact is most of these profits we want to tax away from the bourgeoisie are earned on the backs of third world workers, who produce most of the junk we consume in this country. and then we see stories like this
IPhone Workers Still Sick After Chemical Poisoning
http://iphone.appmobilize.com/mobile-news/426...
the other thing that goes unmentioned is our current account balance, a nation cannot run a trade deficit in perpetuity and expect to keep its head above water. these are the subjects that are really taboo as they point out the fact that most americans if not already among the ranks of the dispossessed, are soon to be.
Alas, the story never changes! Nothing happens until the peasants are relegated to taking to the streets with their torches and pitchforks in an effort to regain their due only to be co-opted by the next batch of parasites with a new supply of ideological snake oil to peddle only to start the process over again! Groundhog Day becomes Groundhog History.
...Meh...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I went on Joe's website MSNBC-Morning Joe -- and this clip is not available... When you view the clip you can pull up the transcript (So I could take notes).... but that was not available either.....Very Interesting...
...wording...
We have a refusal to levy adequate taxation on those that can afford it "crisis" created by our politicians who
refuse to raisehave continued to lower taxes on the rich at at time in our historythat resembles the Gilded Age with income disparity.when the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class has stagnated or fallen behind.Most Americans have no idea what the Gilded Age was or when it took place.
As far as raising taxes goes, most Americans seem to have developed a visceral dislike for raising taxes, but what we need to do is return tax rates on wealthy Americans to rates that prevailed only a generation ago. In Congress, the oligarchs continue to try to lower or eliminate taxes on the wealthy.
... it's not even a very accurate metaphor. Aside from the growing income/wealth disparity, have we seen GDP or real wages increase in the last 10 years?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
scarborough is such a slimeball
Jeffery Sachs deserves the defense of every progressive on the internet. He is absolutely right about everything. He tells it like it is every step of the way. WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCPz2SzROFQ&fe...
Going after the middle-class for our budget problems is classless and dishonest.
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