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Mamdani is an eye-opener: "Wait. They can all get shit done if they really wanted to???"

There's always enough to give the rich a tax break. There's always enough to double the budget for the military. There's always enough for meaningless wars. But there's never enough for the poor & hungry babies home and abroad.

This is excellent framing.

That ten billion is about what California is spending to not build high speed rail this year.

same

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Within living memories, young people could afford to buy houses. The cost was about 2 times a middle class average salary and there were mortgage burning parties after 10-20 years. Then businesses bought up all the housing and lenders ASSIGNED YOU a credit score, unless you had $$$ to circumvent it

Exactly. After the war we homed people. Frankly I’d settle for trailer parks in the short term. But you house people. And you feed them.

Democratic Socialism is American Exceptionalism, per the Constitution.

Democratic Socialism was American Exceptionalism. Per the Constituion. The founders were the original Antifa.

The gop shows us that they can cut affordable housing, defund public transportation, keep people poor, crush public education, and kill anyone if you pray hard enough.

There is always money for highway expansion, but somehow never for transit.

Moreover, education, healthcare, and renewable energy are investments that just create more wealth. Super yachts, stock buybacks, and concentration camps are not.

Same here.

The right side of the road has become full of potholes

The EU is facing its own fascist threat.

I thought it was the “smart” thing to be independent but the more I learned the further left I moved.

"We can't afford it" is the most common and least credible lie told in politics.

Our spending on other countries (unless you count killing them and wrecking their stuff) is tiny compared to our spending on our own rich white people.

I didn’t want to be mistake for one of them. They are so terribly common.

(Chris is the kind of person we need to have openly embrace Anti-theism and Communism and talk out loud about them)

and motherhood statements....don't forget the motherhood statements

I guess I have become farther left over the years in that feeding the billionaires to the dogs seems like something that should be part of a campaign platform. Seriously, though, it has become more obvious that capitalism is not meeting the moment.

same with big corporations. massive layoffs while posting record profits. there is always a ton of slop in the system.

I wish more liberals would understand govts create money. They can never not have enough. The only limit on spending is the real resources available for it to spend on. this should be the start of every spending decision. Is their enough available to do X. finding the money isn’t the problem.

Nobody in US politics or media ever asks "how will we pay for it?" if the "it" is war, or tax cuts, or corruption, or ICE, or.... All of those are free.

Agreed. The barrier is political will, not cash. Funds flow for wars, tax cuts and bailouts but we hear "unaffordable" for housing, transit, SNAP and Medicare. Drop the taxpayer money myth. Money is always there; it's the will to help average Americans that's missing. They choose who gets it.

It's A LOT!!

..and after you prove them wrong they defame you! ... not only wealthy, just average humans.. !🤔

Plus MMT reveals her statement as nonsense.

They are fanatically devoted to one simple principle: The more we spend on ordinary people and their irritating needs the less there is available to steal.

The system is not designed for you in any way,shape or form.

Whenever liberals take control, we suddenly become broke and cut spending. When conservatives are in charge, spending on wars become necessary and there’s no limit. Lather, rinse, repeat.

That’s a succinct description of world politics and capitalism in two sentences.

Unemployment, poverty and homelessness are all deliberately manufactured and maintained in order to suppress wages and terrorise the working class into obedience. None of this is inevitable. This is the world that the bosses choose to create.

Yeah when Elon Musk found the "magic money computers" the media/journalists needed to use that moment to explain to the public how the govt spends. They didn't. Instead, we got 1000s of posts & articles about how Trump is wasting your'taxpayer dollars.'

Yeah, like failing to continue Obamacare subsidies because the cost is supposedly too high & then spending more than a year's worth of subsidies on 6 months worth of war in Iran.

So brazenly obvious now! We were told universal healthcare was just plain batshit crazy and could never happen, among so many other services...we are all waking up!

There's a lot of really terrific we can afford and we don't spend money on it because of government does not prioritize the really terrific stuff over all the bullshit. Why did that make you go left?

This is exactly it.

What’s your chosen political home now in Germany?

Same. Great thread.

We’ve cut taxes on billionaires and ballooned debt. That debt is held primarily by the same billionaires and institutions that benefited from the tax cuts. They’ve benefited from both sides of this. It is a massive, decades long rip off.

The most amazing statistic from the recent World Cup was that 47 of the 48 countries in the tournament have universal healthcare.

Amen.

Amen.

While we are on the subject . . . Here is a map of who has bought Republicans, and been paid for it. 40% of US corporate stock is foreign owned. ( ITEP.org ) So they are yanking the strings in DC, and foreigners and our top 5% got a huge tax break. it’s got to stop — b.rad

$174 Trillion net USA household wealth. uswealthclock.com Reported quarterly. By the Fed. Gave this to Senator Schiff by hand a couple of days ago. He is the latest among many. Never a peep, never hear it. Talked with Robert Reich. He punks billionaires, good . We have Trillions — b.rad