The blow-by-blow of the grassroots v. the astroturf.
AlterNet
What a Victory: How a $40 Million Attack on the Middle Class Went Up in Smoke
Mary Bottari | Director of the Center for Media and Democracy’s Real Economy Project and editor of the www.BanksterUSA.org site for bank busting activists
We should take notice that this was a complete failure... and the deficit has actually been reduced without ANY of the reforms these people advocate for...
ReplyDeleteThe policies of turning mortgage payments into taxes, turning student loans into taxes, and govt buying its own Treasury securities and paying the interest to itself have done MUCH more than what ever these astroturf groups ever came up with...
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If anyone ever does a history of MMT on the net the twitter Q&A is a must.
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