Governments around the world don’t need to raise taxes in order to t***sform their economies and avert climate disaster

In September 2007, as credit was “crunched” and the financial crisis began to unfold, a group of economists and environmentalists, including the future Green party MP Caroline Lucas, met regularly in my small London flat. Supping on comfort food and wine, we argued furiously while drafting a plan we hoped would t***sform the economy and protect the ecosystem. We called it the Green New Deal. Little did we know that the ideas we seeded then would be adopted by a shooting star of the Democratic party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as part of her bid for a New York congressional seat in 2018.

Fast forward to 2019 and the Green New Deal is now at the centre of the 2020 US p**********l campaign. Bernie Sanders last week declared the climate crisis a national emergency and launched his version of the deal – a $16.3 trillion plan that includes massive investment in renewable energy, green infrastructure for climate resilience and money for research.

Sanders is vague about his financing plans. He suggests that cuts in military spending could generate cash, but also proposes a rise in tax for big corporations. These are welcome proposals, but our group has one quibble. Big t***sformational projects are not financed from taxation. Kennedy’s moonshot wasn’t, nor is Britain’s HS2 rail project. Suggesting that the deal can be paid for through tax (even from big corporations) will rightly raise suspicions. Ordinary taxpayers will assume – as they did during the US debate about inheritance tax (reframed by the right as “death taxes”) – that the burden of such a carbon levy will fall instead on their shoulders.

So where should the money come from? There are fundamentally only two sources of financing. The first is borrowing (credit). This is achieved by applying for a loan, or issuing a bond. The second is existing savings.

To raise the money for a green deal, governments would have to draw on their equivalent of a giant credit card, but would also be able to take advantage of investment by savers. Thankfully, the creation of millions of jobs will generate the income and tax revenues needed to repay any borrowing. As Sanders argues, the whole thing will pay for itself.

First, the borrowing: credit issued by a commercial bank, as we all know from spending on our credit cards, does not draw on our existing deposits or savings. Instead it is a promise to pay in the future. OECD governments (backed by millions of taxpayers) are the most trusted borrowers, which is why their promises (bonds) are in such demand. Savings, by contrast, already exist – in bank deposits and savings accounts.

When a government borrows, as it has for financing HS2, that leads to investment and the creation of paid jobs in public and private sectors, and to private sector profits. Both employment income and profits generate tax revenues. Tax revenues are, therefore, a consequence of spending or investment – and can be used to pay back the borrowing. They need not be used directly to finance that investment.

During the second world war commercial banks provided credit to the government in the form of Treasury deposit receipts. They could do so again. But the government also has its own bank, the Bank of England, which issues credit, too (currently known as quantitative easing, or QE), and could use this to purchase government bonds.

To appeal to savers, the government could issue bonds to be repaid over different time periods – short, medium or long-term. These would attract pension funds and insurance companies, but also different kinds of individual savers. They would be able to invest their money in t***sforming the economy away from f****l f**ls, while receiving a regular income in the form of interest. For this to happen, governments would have to be “in the driving seat” when it comes to issuing bonds. Currently they’re more passive – relying almost entirely on demand from private capital markets.

As you can see, this system of financing is entirely doable. However, to succeed, our plan demands a decisive rupture from the neoliberal consensus of pairing expansionary monetary policy (QE) with contractionary fiscal policy (austerity).

The original Green New Deal group continues to meet, to argue, to indulge in good food and wine, and to plot the defeat of that consensus. Later this week, Caroline Lucas, together with Clive Lewis MP, will launch a bill embracing key principles of the plan. From small beginnings, a great change could soon be on its way.

• Ann Pettifor is the author of The Case for the Green New Deal, published by Verso

I have truly tried to understand why the progressive left are so angry that an outsider like President T***p w*n the 2016 e******n? Prior to that they all wanted to either be him or like him. The music and acting communities were in all in love with him. Famous rappers like snoop dog and many many more were all about him and how cool he was/is. So what is the real reason that they are so pissed off about. I have yet to understand. The only plausible thing that I have read about this phenomenon is that as soon as he decided to run on the Republican ticket all of a sudden all of the money he had donated to both parties as well his phylanthropy (spelling?) endeavors to all of these organizations all of the good things he did for them and then they can't stand him. Can anyone here please help me to understand? I would really appreciate it very much!!!!!

Part I:
A Backoff and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.
B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.
C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.
In three generations, there will be no more LBG2Qs---
or wh**ever they are callin themselves now


Part II:
10 Poorest Cities in America (How did it happen?)
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit , MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY 29.9%
3 Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%
5. Miami , FL 26.9%
5 St. Louis , MO 26.8%
7. El Paso , TX 26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
10. Newark , NJ 24.2%

(Now, watch closely... at no time will the fingers leave the hands...) What do these top ten cities (over 250,000 pop.) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?


Detroit, MI - (1st on poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961
Buffalo, NY - (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954
Cincinnati, OH - (3rd) not since 1984
Cleveland, OH - (4th) not since 1989
Miami, FL - (5th) has never had a Republican mayor
St. Louis, MO - (6th) not since 1949
El Paso, TX - (7th) has never had a Republican mayor
Milwaukee, WI - (8th) not since 1908
Philadelphia, PA - (9th) not since 1952
Newark, NJ - (10th) not since 1907

Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over againand expecting different results.'

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats ... yet they are still POOR.


Part III:
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

~ Abraham Lincoln



"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a much closer look at the American Indian." ~ Henry Ford

Some things to ponder...



The biggest factor of why Seniors are losing more and more benefits.



They are getting blamed for the country going broke.

This has gone out to almost two million people .

It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're put together and this picture emerges.



Someone did a lot of research to put together all of this data. Often these programs are buried within other programs making them difficult to find.

A Real Eye Opener


WHY is the USA BANKRUPT? Read this :


We have been hammered with the propaganda that it was the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until

they are read so many times that the readers gets s**k of reading them.



I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts


1.
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to i*****l i*******ts each

year by state governments.

Verify At :
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8
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2.
$22 Billion a year is spent on food Assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC,and free school lunches for i*****l i*******ts.

Verify At :
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexecHTML
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3
$2.5 Billion a year is spent on Medicaid for i*****l i*******ts.
Verify At:

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4.
$12 Billion a year is spent on Primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify At :
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5.
$17 Billion a year is spent for education for the American-born Children

of i*****l i*******ts, known as Anchor babies.
Verify At

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6.
$3 Million a DAY is spent to i ncarcerate i*****l i*******ts.
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7.
30 percent of all Federal Prison Inmates are i*****l i*******ts.
Verify at:

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8.
$90 Billion a year is spent on Illegal immigrants for Welfare & social

Services by the American taxpayers.
Verify At :
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9.
$200 Billion a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the i*****l i*******ts.
Verify At :
http://transcripts.cnn.com/T***SCRI
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13.
In 2006, i*****l i*******ts sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their

Countries of origin.
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14.
The Dark Side of I*****l I*********n: Nearly One million sex crimes

committed By I*****l I*******ts In The United States ..
Verify At :

http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml












The total cost is a whopping


$ 338.3 BILLION A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00

WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR

THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.


Are we THAT Stupid?


YES, FOR ALLOWING THOSE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS TO GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!




If this doesn't bother you, then just delete this message.


If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every Legal Resident in the United States!!!







God bless America

The Grind

The US this week will deploy a carrier strike group and bomber task force to the Middle East to safeguard US allies and troops, said National Security Adviser John Bolton.

The move comes in response to "a number of troubling and escalating indications and warnings," he added, remaining vague on the details.

The deployment will send the USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying ships from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, and potentially to the Arabian Sea or Persian Gulf.

A group of Air Force F-35 stealth fighter jets was deployed to the region last month.

"Shifting additional forces to the Middle East as a deterrent against Iran would represent something of a course correction for the Pentagon, which has sought to move forces away from the region so it could build up its capability to deter possible aggression by Russia and China," reports the Wall Street Journal.

The Details

Officials confirmed the deployment is unrelated to the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, which last week resulted in the death of key Hamas commander Hamed al-Khoudary.

"The US is not seeking war with the Iranian regime," said Bolton. "But we are prepared to respond to any attacks, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces.

The deployment to the Middle East is "something we've been working on for a little while," said Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, adding that Tehran will be held responsible for any attack on American interests - no matter where it comes from.

"If these actions take place, if they do by some third-party proxy, a m*****a group, Hezbollah, we will hold the Iranian leadership directly accountable for that," he promised.

The increasing tension between the US and Iran is a direct result of the Trump Administration's pressure campaign on the regime - including its recent decision not to renew waivers allowing countries to purchase Iranian oil.

As reported by Axios on Sunday, the Trump Administration is considering additional sanctions designed to harm the Iranian economy.

Did anyone watch the Mark Liven show last night, he and a guest discussed the downside of Single Payer health care. I was focused on writing an email to a friend but picked up on a few things. One was the income hit doctors would take. Another, I thought strange, is that the government now, or in the future, I didn't catch everything regarding that point, limits the number of students allowed to study medicine.

What was really troubling was hearing how they would manage cost by not treating people, and the horrendously long waits to be treated if one was allowed to receive treatment. Of course, those officials who are pushing this nonsense would have a separate system of care for them and theirs.

Unfortunately, the folks who should have been watching the program probably weren't.

Whoever thinks that Medicare is the poster child for efficiency in Government, is either not on Medicare, or suffering from dementia. My State has 4 or 5 Medicare districts, each with different rules and provider payment criteria, now multiply that by 50 or so. This is a perfect plan - for job security for employees of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

A more credible idea, would be to contract with, let's say Blue Cross Blue shield, to take over Medicare and Medicaid. Having the Federal Government be the guarantor for every American's healthcare is reasonable, as long as it does not interfere between Doctor, Patient and the insurance carrier. The Government would be responsible for collecting the Premium payments from all Americans, denying tax refunds for those who don't pay up.

For profit insurance carriers are much more efficient at curbing healthcare costs, negotiating with providers, spotting fraud and prosecuting the same. The problem with rising healthcare costs is NOT about insurance, it's about what providers are charging for services. After a heart attack in 2013, I found $12,000 in fraudulent charges on my bill. I tried reporting this fraud to Medicare, and was directed to a volunteer group who investigate such things. Medicare paid it's 80% of the bill and I never heard back from them on the fraud. That means that I owed 20% of that $12,000, and would be taken to court if I didn't pay. Multiply that $12,000 by 100,000,000, and you'll see why Medicare is lucrative for providers.

If you're having trouble paying for the fuel for your small 4 cylinder sedan, you don't solve that problem by trading up to a full size SUV with the largest V8 available.

God Help Us: Atheism Becomes Largest Religion In U.S.
As religiosity has declined, social ills have abounded.
Ralf-Finn Hestoft / Getty

By Michael J. Knowles
@michaeljknowles
April 14, 2019

For the first time in history, atheists constitute the largest religious group in America. According to the General Social Survey, the number of Americans who have no religion has increased 266% over the past three decades and now account for 23.1% of the population, just barely edging out Catholics and Evangelicals as the nation’s dominant faith. Mainline Protestant churches have suffered the greatest collapse, declining 62.5% since 1982 and now comprising just 10.8% of the U.S. population.

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Pete Buttigieg Says It's Hard To Imagine Trump Believes In God Based On His Actions

As religiosity has declined, social ills have abounded. Nearly one in five American adults suffers from anxiety disorders, which now constitute the most common mental illness in the country. One in six Americans takes antidepressant drugs, a 65% surge over just 15 years. The problem is particularly acute among younger Americans. While depression diagnoses have increased 33% since 2013, that number is up 47% among Millennials and 63% among teenagers. Coincidentally, suicide rates among American teenagers have increased by 70% since 2006. American life expectancy declined again last year, as Americans continue to drug and k**l themselves at record rates.

Social scientists have long since established the link between religiosity and life satisfaction. As social psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky observes, people who attend religious services several times each week are nearly twice as likely as those who worship less than once a month to describe themselves as “very happy.” Such psychologists simply state the obvious: the belief that God loves you and that you will live with him in eternity offers greater consolation than the view of death as a dirt nap that stiffens you into worm food.


Religious people are also significantly more likely to engage in happy-making behaviors, such as getting and staying married. A study released in 2017 affirmed what countless others had already shown: married couples report higher life satisfaction than their single, divorced, and widowed neighbors. That satisfaction tends to last beyond the honeymoon and well into old age.

The misery epidemic threatens not merely American households but also our halls of power. The late Andrew Breitbart observed that politics is downstream of culture, and culture in turn is downstream of religion. “Cult” and “culture” are etymologically related, and a culture is defined by what it worships. A materialistic culture worships wealth; a licentious culture worships sex; a godly culture worships God. But “our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people,” as John Adams wrote to the Massachusetts m*****a in 1798. “It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream. Who but God can help us now?


http://www.thedailywire.com



Please Lord!!!! Please!!! we must destroy those who do not believe in the Goodness of You and we must all stand together and protect what is Good and Pure and destroy the Evil. I am a True Blue Christian, and i will fight to destroy all that is Evil. Now what do Y'all believe? Bring God back Home and Destroy all who do not follow his Word. AMEN!!!AMEN!!!

From The Inquistor; February 16, 2017

By John Butler

Now more than ever, being a political moderate is extremely challenging for those who do not agree wholeheartedly with either of the two major political parties’ ideologies.

The polarizing nature of the most recent p**********l nomination campaign, p**********l e******n, and subsequent activity by the current administration have pitted friends and family alike against each other, forcing people to choose a side. While the Republican/Democrat rivalry has existed for well over a century, tensions between supporters of the two sides have rarely been so intense during the last 30 years, even including the Monica Lewinsky scandal during Bill Clinton’s tenure as president.

The definition that comes up on Google is “In politics and religion, a moderate is an individual who is not extreme, partisan, nor radical. In recent years, the term political moderates has gained traction as a buzzword. The existence of the ideal moderate is disputed because of a lack of a moderate political ideology.”

Essentially, a true political moderate is someone who does not hold to a party line, who may disagree with aspects of the GOP while supporting other agendas. The moderate may agree with portions of the Democratic party’s purposes while opposing others.

As most of us are well aware, the intensity of the recent e******n and the actions of the current administration have raised tensions on virtually all major matters to unseen heights. Social media users unfriend people for their political views now more than ever. Twitter, that bastion of Trump interaction, buzzes constantly, with more and more bans coming every day due to the vehemence of people on both sides of issues.

The concept of us versus them, Red or Blue, and that only one side is correct are all partly at fault for the challenges political moderates face. If I, who has many conservative Republican family members, were to say something in support of Obamacare, I would likely receive backlash from those comments. On the other hand, were I to come out on social media in support of Donald Trump’s immigration freeze, I would likely have many of my liberal friends comment angrily or unfriend me.

As such, political moderates who voice opinions tend to lose out either way. The current political climate is decidedly unfriendly towards anyone who has not picked a side in the ongoing debates. Even criticizing a clear blunder by one party or another will bring the wrath of half of America down on a someone’s head.

Bernie Sanders Fan ?

A teacher asked her class how many of them were Bernie Sanders fans. Not really knowing what a Bernie Sanders fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different...again. Little Johnny said, 'Because I'm not a Bernie Sanders fan.'
The teacher asked, 'Why aren't you a Bernie Sanders fan?'
Johnny said, 'Because I'm a Conservative.'
The teacher asked him why he's a Conservative.
Little Johnny answered, 'Well, my Mom's a Conservative and my Dad's a Conservative, so I'm a Conservative.'

Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, 'If your Mom was a Moron and your Dad was an i***t, what would that make you?'

Little Johnny replied, 'A Bernie Sanders fan.'

Here on OPP. we got to watch the Republicans outrage when Obama was elected President in 2008. There were those who insisted that he was not their President, that massive v***r f***d was to blame, etc. The attacks on Obama seen here ran the gambit from- he's really a citizen of Kenya, he's a Muslim, to - he's trying to destroy America as we knew it. Many prominent people outside of OPP either started these attacks, or participated in them, including the current President. Everyone who participated in this endeavor insisted that they were Patriots and were merely trying to defend America, and accused their opponents of being un-Patriotic and worse. There was 8 years of this........then comes 2016.

Here on OPP we got to watch Democrats outrage when Trump was elected President, many insisting that he was not their President, that massive v***r f***d or Russian interference was to blame. The attacks on Trump ran the gambit from - he's a Russian plant, he's an Israeli operative to - he's completely unqualified and self absorbed. Many prominent people outside of OPP either started these attacks or participated in them. Everyone who participated in this endeavor insisted that they were Patriots and were merely trying to defend America and accused their opponents of being un-Patriotic or worse.

How many Americans are truly trying to ruin their own country? None, but there are those here who insist on believing this fallacy. Those who castigated Obama for 8 years, insisted that they were justified in those attacks, who now attack those who are doing the exact same thing to Trump for exactly the same reason. Why is it that YOU can do such things, but others may not?

Going back decades, we watched the "losing" side flop like stranded fish, until they were rescued by the cycle switching back in their favor..............and watched the "other" side begin their death throe stranded flopping. To be perfectly clear, the ONLY loser in this cycle..................is America. We now sanction filling our courts with activist partisans, abandoning the Constitutional traditions of law, order and impartiality................all in an attempt to avoid experiencing the stranded fish syndrome. The t***h is; there is no way to prevent the cyclic switching of the party in ascendance, so stranded fish syndrome is here to stay.

America stagnates, allowing Her infrastructure to crumble right before Her eyes, Her middle class to disappear, the wealth and g****r gap to widen, morals to decay, and civility to disappear, among just a few of the current maladies...................all because we insist on pursuing partisan and ideological goals to the exclusion of all else...................and because we're desperately trying to avoid experiencing the stranded fish syndrome.....................we'd prefer the other side to have that honor.

There are those who recognize that we are not a Democracy, yet those same people endorse majority rule. The majority of citizens don't get to make ( or un-make ) law, yet a majority party does. Where does the Constitution state that, when a political party is in the majority in all three branches of Government, the rights of those in the minority don't matter? Where does the Constitution authorize the people's representatives to ignore the will of their own constituents, in favor of the will of party leadership or other special interests?

The American people's choices are NOT only between the left and right, yet both the left and right strive mightily to make them think it is. The fact is, both the left and right are wrong, and they're both right. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say that their v****g choices were " the lesser of the two evils", thus acknowledging that BOTH choices were.............evil. What do they mean by that? Obviously, it meant that they didn't care for either choice.................but felt that they had to chose one or the other anyway..................or not choose at all.

The majority of Americans see correctness in some of the left's agenda and some correctness in the right's agenda, but are only given the option to choose one or the other, or let others do the choosing. America, the land of plenty, the birthplace of individual liberty and freedom...............except when it comes to it's government, when the choices are purposely limited to...................2, just 2, or perhaps, some version of the 2, but still..................just 2.

Partisan politics were not born with the United States, is not authorized by ( or prohibited by ) the Constitution, but developed by select groups seeking power over all Americans. The majority felt that keeping s***ery when the rest of the civilized world had abandoned it - and they were wrong. The majority felt that annihilating Native Americans was just policy - and they were wrong. The majority felt that denying women the right to v**e, own businesses or property was the only sensible policy - and they were wrong. The "majority" spoken of here was not necessarily the majority of the citizenry, but the majority of those in the Government.................who consistently believe that they know best, and rarely consult the very people they work for.

There are over 320,000,000 citizens here, but they will be forced to select one of two ideologies/philosophies/agendas, or have the choice made for them.